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white touches ; anterior dorsal region violet brown, or dull orange, the anterior region 

 being somewhat paler, branchise violet, banded with white. Anterior bristles in two 

 groups : upper with long shafts and tapering tips with narrow wings ; lower with shorter 

 and thicker shafts, and tips with broader wings ; bristles of the second region with inter- 

 mediate tips, but which greatly lengthen posteriorly. Anterior hooks avicular with 

 minute serrations above the main fang ; neck rather long, and base long and tapered ; 

 accompanying bristles with pointed spatulate tip. 



Synonyms. 



1808 ?. Amphitrite vesiculosa, Montagu. MS. vol. Linn. Soc, pi. xxi. 



1815. „ „ idem. Linn. Trans., xi, p. 19, Tab. v, fig. 1. 



1828 ?. Sabella ,, Stark. Elements, ii, p. 133. 



1843. „ ,, Milne Edwards. Regne Anim. illust., pi. v, fig. 3. 



1845. ,, „ Johnston. Ann. Nat. Hist., xvi, p. 449. 

 penicillus, Chenu. Bibl. Conch., t. l er , p. 247, pi. xx, fig. 4. 



1846. ,, lanigera, Grube. Arch. f. Naturges., p. 51, pi. i, fig. 1. 

 1851. „ vesiculosa, Williams. Rep. Brit. Assoc, 1851, p. 205. 



,, Grube. Fam. Annel., pp. 88 and 140. 



1853. „ „ Williams. Ann. Nat. Hist., 2nd ser., vol. xii, p. 395. 



1865. ,, „ Johnston. Cat. Worms Brit. Mus., pp. 295 and 346. 



„ (partim), De Quatrefages. Annel., t. ii, p. 450. 



terebelloides, idem. Ibid., t. ii, p. 438. 

 Kroyeri, idem. Ibid., p. 438. 

 arenilega, idem. Ibid., p. 439. 



1867. ,, vesiculosa, Parfitt. Cat. Annel. Devon, p. 34. 



1868. Branchiomma vesiculosum var. Neapolitana, Claparede. Annel Nap., p. 424, pi. xxii, fig. 5. 



1869. Sabella vesiculosa, Grube. Mitt. St. Vaast, etc., Abhandl. Schles. Gesell., 1868 — 9, p. 105. 



1870. „ „ idem. Arch. f. Naturges., p. 345. 

 „ „ lanigera, idem. Ibid., p. 345. 



1873. Branchiomma vesiculosum, Claparede. Annel. sedent., pp. 34, 48, 99, 117, pi. xiv, figs. 9 — 11. 



1874. Sabella {Branchiomma) vesiculosa, Mcintosh. Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. xiv, p. 205. 

 „ Branchiomma vesiculosa, Encycl. Brit., Helminthology, p. 68, fig. 16. 



1875. „ vesiculosum, Panceri. Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., vol. xviii, p. 532. 



„ Sabella (Branchiomma) vesiculosa, Mcintosh. Invert, and Fishes St. Andrews, p. 130. 

 „ „ vesiculosa, idem. Encycl. Brit., Helminthology, p. 294, fig. 3, pi. cclxxy, fig. 5. 



1884. Branchiomma vesiculosum, Langerhans. Zeit. w. Zool., Bd. xl, p. 268, pi. xvi, fig. 31. 



1885. „ „ Mcintosh. " Challenger " Annel., p. 493, and pi. xxx a, figs. 10—12. 

 „ „ „ Carus. Fauna Medit., i, p. 271. 



1888. „ „ Brunotte. Recher. Anat. Branch., Nancy, pp. 5 — 75, pis. i and ii. 



1891. „ „ Soulier. Anat. Annel. tubic, pp. 30, 38, 53, 98, 129, 235. 



1893. „ „ Lo Bianco. Annel. tubic. Nap. Atti d. Scienze di Nap., 2 e ser., t. v, 



No. 11, p. 69, pi. iii, fig. 4. 



1894. „ „ De St. Joseph. Ann. Sc. nat., 7 e ser., t. xvii, p. 300, pi. xi, figs. 



303—314. 

 1904. „ „ Journ. M. B. A., vol. vii, p. 231. 



1906. „ „ Bohn. Ann. Sc. nat., 9 e ser., t. iii, p. 130 (movements). 



