﻿Hfttok. 
  — 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Worms 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  315 
  

  

  Genus 
  Pohjcelis, 
  Hemp, 
  and 
  Elir, 
  

  

  Mouth 
  subcentral 
  ; 
  pharynx 
  cyhndrical. 
  Eyes 
  numerous, 
  occasionally 
  

   in 
  a 
  heap 
  on 
  the 
  neck, 
  also 
  in 
  lines 
  on 
  the 
  margin, 
  

   P. 
  AUSTEALis, 
  Schmarda, 
  

  

  Body 
  flat, 
  oblong-oval, 
  brown 
  ; 
  eye-clusters 
  irregularly 
  surrounded 
  by 
  a 
  

   halo. 
  

  

  Auckland, 
  and 
  New 
  South 
  Wales. 
  Marine. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Centrostomum, 
  Schmarda. 
  

  

  Mouth 
  central, 
  orbicular 
  ; 
  pharynx 
  multilobed, 
  divided 
  or 
  crenated. 
  

   C. 
  PQLYSOEUM, 
  Schmarda. 
  

  

  Body 
  oblongo-oval, 
  truncated 
  anteriorly 
  ; 
  light 
  brown 
  ; 
  eye-clusters 
  

   many, 
  

  

  Auckland. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Thysanozoon, 
  Grube. 
  

  

  With 
  frontal 
  pseudo-tentacles, 
  Back 
  with 
  numerous 
  pajiillse. 
  Eyes 
  

   numerous. 
  

  

  T, 
  cruciatum, 
  Schmarda. 
  

  

  Body 
  flat, 
  elliptical. 
  Papillae 
  conical. 
  Two 
  bands 
  at 
  right-angles 
  to 
  

   each 
  other, 
  destitute 
  of 
  papillae. 
  Eye-clusters 
  cervical 
  ; 
  two 
  semi- 
  circular. 
  

  

  Port 
  Jackson 
  and 
  Auckland. 
  Marine. 
  

  

  Genus 
  GeojAana, 
  Schultze, 
  

   Body 
  long; 
  mouth 
  central; 
  eyes 
  numerous, 
  anterior, 
  and 
  marginal. 
  

   Terrestrial. 
  

  

  G. 
  TEAVEKsn, 
  Moseley. 
  Q.J. 
  of 
  Micros. 
  Science, 
  Vol. 
  XVII., 
  p. 
  284. 
  

  

  Body 
  elongate, 
  flat 
  beneath, 
  slightly 
  convex 
  above, 
  bluntly-pointed 
  

   posteriorly, 
  more 
  gradually 
  attenuated 
  anteriorly 
  ; 
  broadest 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  ; 
  

   generative 
  aperture 
  a 
  little 
  less 
  than 
  half 
  the 
  distance 
  between 
  the 
  mouth 
  

   and 
  posterior 
  extremity; 
  ambulacral 
  line 
  absent, 
  the 
  whole 
  under-surface 
  

   acting 
  as 
  a 
  sole 
  ; 
  eye-spots 
  forming 
  a 
  single 
  row 
  of 
  ten 
  or 
  so 
  on 
  the 
  front 
  of 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  extremity, 
  and 
  an 
  elongate 
  patch 
  composed 
  of 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  

   rows 
  on 
  the 
  lateral 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  body, 
  just 
  behind 
  the 
  anterior 
  extremity 
  ; 
  

   also 
  present, 
  sparsely 
  scattered, 
  on 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  for 
  its 
  

   entire 
  length 
  ; 
  body 
  of 
  a 
  pale 
  yellow 
  on 
  its 
  lateral 
  margins, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  

   mesial 
  stripe 
  on 
  the 
  dorsal 
  surface, 
  extending 
  for 
  its 
  entire 
  length, 
  of 
  a 
  dark 
  

   chocolate 
  colour 
  ; 
  and 
  four 
  narrow, 
  ill-defined, 
  and 
  somewhat 
  irregular 
  

   similarly 
  coloured 
  stripes 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  it, 
  extending 
  to 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   margins 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  ; 
  under-surface, 
  pale 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Wellington. 
  

  

  Order 
  Nemeetidea. 
  

  

  Long 
  worm-like, 
  mostly 
  marine, 
  dioBcious, 
  i^roboscis-bearing 
  ; 
  body 
  

   sometimes 
  transversely 
  striped. 
  

  

  