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PARAMPHINOME PULCHELLA. 



insertion of the dorsal bristles of the first segment. Branchias occur only on the anterior 

 segments, and are large and dichotomously divided, extending across the dorsum. 



paramphinome pulchella. 

 Fig. 15. 



Anterior end of Paramphinome pulchella, Sars. (After G. O. Sars.) 

 Enlarged. 



Specific Characters. — Body nearly cylindrical, a little broader than high, slightly 

 tapered anteriorly and posteriorly. Setigerous segments twenty-four to thirty-three. 

 Cephalic lobe narrower than the first segment, produced into a conical process 

 posteriorly. Branchise commencing on the fourth setigerous segment, and from four to 

 six in number, dichotomously divided ; terminal processes cylindrical. Colour pale. 

 Length 9 mm. 



Synonyms. 



1868. Hipponoe Jeffrey sii, Mcintosh. Ann. Nat. Hist., 4 ser., vol. ii, p. 250. 



1869. „ „ Idem. Trans. R. S. E., vol. xxv, p. 406, pi. xv, f. 1. 



„ Paramphinome pulchella, M. Sars. Yidensk. Selsk. Christian. (Aar, 1868), 1869, p. 2o4. 



1872. 

 1873. 



1875. 

 1876. 



1879. 



Gr. 0. Sars. Remark. Forms An. Life, vol. i, p. 45, pi. iv, f. 19 — 35. 



Sars. Bid. Christ. Fanna, p. 15. 



Ehlers. Zeitsch. f. w. Zool., vol. xxv, pp. 17 and 31. 



Hansen. Annel. Norsk. Nordhavs-Exped., 1876, Nyt. Mag. £. Nat., 



vol. xxiv, pi. i, p. 4. 

 Tauber. Ann. Danic, 78. 



Habitat.— Dredged in St. Magnus Bay, Shetland, by Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys in 1867, 

 at a depth of 100 fathoms. G. O. Sars found it occasionally at Lofoten in water 

 ranging to 300 fathoms ; in the Christiania Fjord in 100 to 230 fathoms ; and also more 

 frequently at Aalsund on a muddy bottom in 20 to 30 fathoms near the shore. It has 

 even come from a depth of 600 fathoms. The species extends to Norway and the Arctic 

 seas (Hansen). 



