﻿HuTTON. 
  — 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Worms 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  819 
  

  

  yellow, 
  siDotted 
  with 
  brown, 
  margin 
  fimbriated 
  with 
  conical 
  spines. 
  Ten- 
  

   tacles 
  smooth 
  ; 
  dorsal 
  cirri 
  spinulose. 
  

  

  Auckland. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Antinoe 
  of 
  Kinberg, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  bases 
  

   of 
  the 
  antennte 
  are 
  fixed 
  under 
  the 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  emarginated 
  cephalic 
  lobe, 
  

   close 
  to 
  the 
  tentacle. 
  

  

  P. 
  POLYCHROMA, 
  ScJimarcla, 
  I.e., 
  p. 
  153, 
  pi. 
  36, 
  /. 
  307. 
  

  

  Body 
  flat, 
  yellowish-red; 
  elytra 
  12 
  pairs, 
  oval, 
  yellowish, 
  spotted 
  with 
  

   greyish-blue 
  or 
  greyish-red 
  on 
  the 
  inferior 
  external 
  margin. 
  Tentacles 
  and 
  

   cu'ri 
  smooth. 
  

  

  This 
  species, 
  and 
  the 
  next, 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Lepidonotus 
  of 
  Leach, 
  

   in 
  which 
  the 
  bases 
  of 
  the 
  antennae 
  are 
  produced 
  from 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin 
  

   of 
  the 
  cephalic 
  lobe. 
  

  

  P. 
  siNCLAiRi, 
  Baird, 
  P.L.S., 
  Zoology, 
  VIII., 
  p. 
  184. 
  

  

  Head 
  lobe 
  rather 
  small 
  ; 
  palpi 
  stout 
  white, 
  setaceous, 
  smooth 
  ; 
  elytra 
  

   12 
  pairs, 
  pale 
  coloured, 
  mottled 
  with 
  black 
  ; 
  rounded, 
  thin, 
  covered 
  all 
  over 
  

   with 
  minute 
  points, 
  with 
  some 
  larger 
  raised 
  and 
  rounded 
  punctations 
  

   intermixed 
  ; 
  ciliated 
  on 
  outer 
  margin. 
  Back 
  completely 
  covered. 
  Feet 
  

   biramous 
  ; 
  ventral 
  branch 
  the 
  larger, 
  with 
  a 
  fascicle 
  of 
  yellow 
  bristles, 
  stout, 
  

   shghtly 
  curved 
  at 
  the 
  point, 
  and 
  serrated 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  below 
  the 
  apex. 
  

   Dorsal 
  branch 
  small 
  ; 
  bristles 
  short, 
  slender, 
  sharp-pointed, 
  and 
  minutely 
  

   serrated 
  nearly 
  their 
  whole 
  length. 
  Dorsal 
  cmi 
  conical, 
  setaceous, 
  smooth; 
  

   anal 
  cirri 
  rudimentary. 
  Length, 
  about 
  9 
  lines 
  ; 
  breadth, 
  2 
  lines. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Pelogenia, 
  Schmarda. 
  

   Body 
  vermiform, 
  long 
  ; 
  elytra 
  in 
  aU 
  the 
  segments. 
  Suctorial 
  feet 
  in 
  

   the 
  back 
  and 
  abdomen 
  ; 
  oars 
  biramous. 
  Tentacles 
  seven, 
  their 
  external 
  

   bases 
  coalescing. 
  

  

  P. 
  ANTipoDA, 
  Schmarda, 
  I. 
  c, 
  p. 
  160. 
  

  

  Back 
  convex, 
  blackish 
  in 
  front, 
  reddish-yellow 
  behind. 
  Abdomen 
  

   ferruginous, 
  with 
  a 
  deep 
  median 
  sulcus. 
  Suctorial 
  feet 
  disposed 
  in 
  four 
  

   systems 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen 
  ; 
  two 
  at 
  the 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  sulcus, 
  the 
  others 
  at 
  

   the 
  bases 
  of 
  the 
  ventral 
  cirri. 
  Dorsal 
  suctorial 
  feet 
  behind 
  and 
  between 
  

   the 
  elytra. 
  Dorsal 
  elytra 
  hardly 
  covering, 
  brownish-red, 
  the 
  margins 
  

   undulating. 
  Seise 
  golden, 
  articulated, 
  the 
  superior 
  part 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   inferior, 
  thin 
  ; 
  superiorly 
  short 
  and 
  broad. 
  

  

  Family 
  Euniceid^. 
  

   Bounded, 
  long, 
  flattened 
  ventrally 
  ; 
  head 
  lobes 
  notched 
  in 
  front, 
  with 
  

   1-5 
  tentacles 
  ; 
  several 
  separate 
  upper, 
  and 
  two, 
  often 
  united, 
  lower 
  jaws 
  ; 
  

   feet 
  simple 
  with 
  acicula. 
  Living 
  in 
  sand-burrows. 
  

  

  