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  Transactions, 
  — 
  Zoology. 
  

  

  shorter 
  tliau 
  the 
  feet 
  ; 
  jaws 
  with 
  short 
  apices 
  ; 
  teeth 
  five, 
  rounded, 
  

   irregular. 
  

   Auckland. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Heteronereis, 
  (Ersted. 
  

   Head, 
  body, 
  and 
  anterior 
  feet 
  like 
  Nereis 
  ; 
  posterior 
  feet 
  very 
  different 
  

   from 
  the 
  others, 
  carrying 
  a 
  foliaceous 
  lobe, 
  and 
  the 
  bristles 
  sometimes 
  

   single, 
  sometimes 
  mixed. 
  

  

  H. 
  AusTRALis, 
  Sclimarda, 
  I.e., 
  p. 
  101, 
  pi. 
  XXXI., 
  /. 
  242. 
  Quat. 
  I., 
  p. 
  577. 
  

   Body 
  flat, 
  96-ringed; 
  jaws 
  tridentate 
  ; 
  appendices 
  of 
  the 
  feet 
  tongue- 
  

   shaped 
  and 
  leaf-like 
  ; 
  branchiae 
  (dorsal 
  cirri) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  feet 
  ; 
  upper 
  

   tubercle 
  subglobose 
  ; 
  green 
  in 
  front, 
  yellow 
  behind. 
  

  

  Family 
  Glyceric^. 
  

   Segments 
  many-ringed 
  ; 
  proboscis 
  club-shaped, 
  protrusible 
  ; 
  bristles 
  with 
  

   acicula; 
  branchi^ 
  short 
  or 
  none. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Glycera, 
  Savigny. 
  

   Head 
  small, 
  conical. 
  Branches 
  of 
  the 
  feet 
  approximated, 
  on 
  a 
  common 
  

   peduncle, 
  bristles 
  simple 
  and 
  composite, 
  with 
  two 
  acicula 
  in 
  each 
  branch. 
  

   Proboscis 
  with 
  four 
  hooked 
  teeth, 
  with 
  no 
  points. 
  

  

  G. 
  oviGERA, 
  Schmarda, 
  I.e., 
  p. 
  95, 
  pi. 
  30, 
  /. 
  239. 
  Quat. 
  H., 
  p. 
  188. 
  

  

  Body 
  yellowish 
  or 
  brownish-green 
  ; 
  bipartite 
  segments 
  of 
  the 
  jaws 
  

   with 
  a 
  broad 
  base, 
  external 
  process 
  quadi-angular, 
  pedicelled 
  ; 
  proboscis 
  

   ringed 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  with 
  a 
  double 
  series 
  of 
  papillae 
  ; 
  branchise 
  (dorsal 
  cirri) 
  

   short, 
  conical 
  ; 
  feet 
  notched 
  ; 
  pectiniform 
  ovaria 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  feet. 
  

  

  The 
  body 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  greenish, 
  the 
  feet 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Family 
  Phyllodocid^. 
  

   Body 
  long, 
  many-jointed 
  ; 
  head 
  lobes 
  small; 
  antennse 
  4 
  or 
  5 
  ; 
  eyes 
  2-4 
  ; 
  

   epipharynx 
  with 
  papillae 
  ; 
  ventral 
  cirri 
  leaf-like. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Eulalia, 
  Savigny. 
  

   Head 
  with 
  five 
  antennae 
  and 
  two 
  or 
  four 
  eyes 
  ; 
  buccal 
  segment 
  simple, 
  

   double 
  or 
  triple, 
  with 
  four 
  pairs 
  of 
  tentacles 
  ; 
  body 
  long, 
  linear, 
  narrow, 
  

   always 
  composed 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  rings 
  ; 
  feet 
  one-branched, 
  armed 
  

   with 
  composite 
  bristles, 
  generally 
  with 
  a 
  leaf-like 
  cirrus. 
  

  

  E. 
  CMCA, 
  Quatrefages, 
  I.e., 
  11., 
  p. 
  123. 
  

  

  Head 
  small, 
  rounded; 
  antennae 
  small, 
  the 
  median 
  behind 
  ; 
  eyes 
  none 
  (?); 
  

   buccal 
  segment 
  triple; 
  tentacles 
  very 
  short, 
  thick, 
  disposed 
  1,2,1 
  on 
  each 
  

   side; 
  body 
  roundish, 
  of 
  250-270 
  segments 
  ; 
  feet 
  small, 
  exposed; 
  upper 
  cirri 
  

   thick, 
  hardly 
  leaf-like, 
  smaU, 
  lanceolate 
  ; 
  lower 
  small 
  mamill^form 
  ; 
  bristles 
  

   simple, 
  short, 
  straight, 
  deciduous. 
  

  

  yhis 
  very 
  common 
  species 
  is 
  of 
  a 
  dark 
  green 
  colour 
  — 
  (F.W.H*^ 
  

  

  