248 AUTOLYTUS INERMIS. 



This species may be accepted at present, but it is probable that an exhaustive study 

 of the British Autolytidse may reveal relationships at present unknown. 



Another Autolytus, viz. A. rnacrophthalma, Marenzeller, was procured by Major 

 Elwes at Babbacombe, 1 but no example was preserved, and hence only a brief notice can 

 at present be given. 



The bead has four large eyes and often a few additional specks. Palpi fused 

 dorsally. The median tentacle longer than the lateral. Tentacular cirri normal. The 

 proboscis has a rim of twenty teeth anteriorly. Second dorsal cirrus the longest, the third 

 considerably shorter (about one quarter the length), but longer than those which follow. 

 Two rather thick anal cirri. The general aspect is like that of Autolytus aurantiaca, with 

 forty to sixty segments. The colour is rose-orange, the tips of the tentacles and cirri 

 being deepest. Various examples had stolons. 



Marenzeller 2 found it in the Adriatic, and both Langerhans and De St. Joseph think 

 that it closely resembles that author's A. luxurians s from the same region. It is common 

 between tide-marks at Madeira (Langerhans), as well as in dredged material at Dinard, 

 on the shores of France (De St. Joseph). 4 



1 < Journ. M. B. A./ n.s., vol. viii, p. 201, 1908. 

 1 c Wiener Akad. Ber./ 1875, p. 37. 



2 ( Wiener Akad. Ber./ 1875, p. 37. 



3 Ibid., 1874 ; p. 50, Taf. vi, fig. 1, and Taf. vii, fig. 1, 



4 ' Ann. Sc. Nat./ 7 e ser., t. i, p. 226. 



