﻿HuTTON. 
  — 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Worms 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  321 
  

  

  ill 
  size. 
  Caruncle 
  long, 
  narrow, 
  extending 
  over 
  4 
  or 
  5 
  segments. 
  Ventral 
  

   cirri 
  white 
  ; 
  dorsal 
  cirri 
  long 
  and 
  subulate, 
  of 
  a 
  beautiful 
  purple 
  colour. 
  

   Brancliife 
  simply 
  branched. 
  Bristles 
  of 
  both 
  feet 
  capillary, 
  slender, 
  and 
  

   simple, 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  dorsal 
  tuft 
  longer 
  and 
  stouter 
  than 
  the 
  ventral. 
  

  

  Family 
  Nephthyid^, 
  

   Body 
  long, 
  many-jointed 
  ; 
  lateral 
  feelers 
  small 
  ; 
  peristome 
  without 
  

   cirri, 
  but 
  with 
  parapodia 
  and 
  papillae 
  in 
  place 
  of 
  teeth. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Nephtys, 
  Cuvier. 
  

   Head 
  small, 
  with 
  four 
  small 
  antenna. 
  Body 
  terminated 
  by 
  one 
  anal 
  

   cirrus. 
  Branches 
  of 
  feet 
  separated 
  ; 
  the 
  superior 
  carrying 
  a 
  cirriform 
  

   branchia 
  on 
  its 
  inferior 
  border. 
  

  

  N. 
  MACROUKA 
  Schnarda, 
  I.e., 
  p. 
  91. 
  Quat., 
  I, 
  p. 
  430. 
  

  

  Body 
  prismatico-cylindrical, 
  greyish-yellow. 
  Head 
  trapezoidal. 
  Eyes 
  

   large. 
  Tentacles 
  four, 
  distinct 
  ; 
  jaws 
  two 
  on 
  a 
  horny 
  base. 
  BranchisB 
  

   short 
  ; 
  inferior 
  lamellar 
  process 
  large. 
  Ventral 
  cirrus 
  obsolete. 
  Caudal 
  

   cuTus 
  filiform 
  long. 
  

  

  Family 
  Neeeid^. 
  

  

  Body 
  long, 
  with 
  two 
  anal 
  cirri 
  ; 
  head 
  flat, 
  small, 
  with 
  four 
  eyes, 
  two 
  

   small 
  middle 
  and 
  two 
  large 
  outer 
  antenna 
  ; 
  peristome 
  with 
  eight 
  feelers 
  ; 
  

   epipharynx 
  protrusible, 
  with 
  two 
  large 
  horizontally 
  moveable 
  jaws, 
  armed 
  

   with 
  denticles; 
  parapodia 
  double, 
  with 
  acicula, 
  and 
  no 
  hair-like 
  bristles. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Nereis, 
  Lamarck. 
  

   Head 
  with 
  fom- 
  eyes 
  and 
  four 
  antennas 
  ; 
  latero-external 
  antennje 
  very 
  

   thick 
  terminated 
  by 
  a 
  small 
  distinct 
  joint 
  ; 
  buccal 
  segment 
  very 
  distinct 
  with 
  

   4 
  pairs 
  of 
  subulate 
  tentacles 
  ; 
  proboscis 
  short, 
  divided 
  into 
  3 
  regions, 
  of 
  

   which 
  two 
  are 
  exsertile, 
  always 
  armed 
  with 
  two 
  strong 
  curved 
  jaws, 
  and 
  

   generally 
  with 
  very 
  small 
  and 
  numerous 
  denticles 
  ; 
  feet 
  biramous 
  ; 
  superior 
  

   branch 
  with 
  two 
  tongue-like 
  accessory 
  branchise, 
  inferior 
  branch 
  with 
  a 
  

   single 
  similar 
  one 
  ; 
  both 
  branches 
  with 
  bristles 
  and 
  a 
  cirrus. 
  

  

  N. 
  EOBDSTA, 
  Quatrefages, 
  I.e. 
  I., 
  p. 
  544, 
  not 
  of 
  Kinberg. 
  

  

  Head 
  broad, 
  elongated, 
  anterior 
  sulcus 
  apparently 
  bipartite 
  ; 
  lateral 
  

   antennee 
  very 
  thick, 
  broad, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  head 
  ; 
  the 
  median 
  small, 
  

   conical; 
  buccal 
  segment 
  short. 
  Tentacles 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  head; 
  jaws 
  

   broad, 
  internal 
  margin 
  straight, 
  5-6-dentate. 
  Denticles 
  numerous, 
  large, 
  

   disposed 
  m 
  balls 
  ; 
  body 
  broad, 
  of 
  107 
  segments 
  ; 
  feet 
  very 
  short, 
  appendices 
  

   rounded, 
  each 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  cirrus. 
  

  

  N. 
  PAciFicA, 
  Schnarda, 
  I.e., 
  p. 
  107, 
  pL 
  XXXI., 
  /. 
  246. 
  Quat., 
  I.e., 
  I., 
  p. 
  546, 
  

   not 
  N. 
  pacifica, 
  Quat., 
  from 
  Peru. 
  

   Back 
  obscure 
  green 
  ; 
  belly 
  greenish-yellow 
  ; 
  segments 
  180 
  ; 
  head 
  

   rounded 
  ; 
  external 
  tentacles 
  rounded, 
  short 
  ; 
  branchi£e 
  and 
  ventral 
  cirri 
  

  

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