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and series of hooks below. The anterior margin of the fourth setiger- 
ous segment is prolonged into a thin membranous collar. Proboscis 
swollen, longitudinally ribbed. Head with a prominent convex median 
plate, and with a raised border on each side and behind, the lateral and 
posterior lobes separated by natches. Anal segment funnel-shaped, the 
edge surrounded by papille. 
CLYMENELLA TORQUATA Verrill. Plate XIV, figs. 71-73. (p. 343). 
Clymene torquatus Leidy, op. cit., p. 14 (146), 1855. 
Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey; New Haven; Vineyard Sound; Bay 
of Fundy ; Saint George’s Bank, &c. Low-water to 60 fathoms. 
NICOMACHE DISPAR Verrill, sp. nov. (p. 512.) 
Body elongated, with eighteen setigerous segments. Head elongated, 
sub-conical, with a small central plate, and a depressed point in front, 
and with low, narrow, lateral and posterior marginal lobes, separated by 
slight notches; on the anterior part of each lateral border there is a 
cluster of small, reddish brown, ocelli-like specks. Buccal lobe coal- 
~ escent with the cephalic above. Proboscis swollen and plicate. The first 
twosetigerous segments have small fascicles of slender, short sete above, 
and a single uncinate seta or hook below on each side. The third seg- 
ment bas much longer sete in the upper fascicles and two hooks in the 
lower ones. The fourth has still longer, slender setz in the upper fasci- 
cles, and about eight hooks in each of the lower ones. In the following 
segments the hooks become much more numerous. There is’ one short, 
biannulated, anteanal segment, destitute of seta. Anal segment subur- 
ceolate, as long as broad, cylindrical toward its border, which is fur- 
nished on the ventral side with one long, slender cirrus, often as long 
as the diameter of the anal segment, and two short lateral ones; the 
rest of the border has a few, mostly very small, distant, unequal, obtuse 
papilla or denticnlations. The anal orifice is situated at the summit of 
a small cone, which rises from the bottom of the funnel. The last setig- 
erous segment is longer than the anteanal, and a little longer than ahy 
of the ten that precede it, which are all short and subequal, broader than 
long, those toward the posterior end deeply incised at the intervals be- 
tween them. The three anterior setigerous segments are shorter than 
broad ; the fourth is twice as long; the fifth is three times as long; the 
sixth is five times as long. The color, when living, was light red, trans- 
lucent, with conspicuous bright red blood-vessels, and with a bright red 
band at about the anterior third. The largest specimen obtained was 
50™™ Jong and 2.5™™ in diameter after preservation in alcohol. In this 
specimen the anal segment is long, funnel-shaped, flaring but little toward 
the margin, and with four or five slight transverse annulations. The 
buccal segment has two transverse reddish lines on each side. 
Off Buzzard’s Bay in 25 fathoms; fifteen miles east of Block Island 
in 29 fathoms, sandy mud. It forms rough tubes of sand, which are not 
very firm. 
