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tentacles three ; long tentacular cirri ; maxillse small or none ; dorsum covered with a 

 close layer of felt ; ventral spines simple at the apex. 



In his ' Annelids of the ' Blake ' ' (1887) Bhlers keeps to the family Aphroditida3, with 

 sub-families Hermionea, Polynoina, Acoetea, and Sigalionina. The Hermionea he dis- 

 tinguishes by the facial tubercles and the arrangement of the scales ; and he separates them 

 from the Acoetea and Sigalionina by the condition of the branchia3 and the structure of 

 the bristles. 



Aphrodita aouleata, Linnmus, 1765. Plate XXIV, figs. 4 and 5. 



Body broad, cephalic lobe inflated anteriorly, basal part of the tentacle only half 

 the length ; facial tubercle with sparsely distributed small globular papillaa ; central 

 region of the gut differentiated from the complexly lobed glandular csoca ; spines of the 

 dorsal division of the foot long, piercing the felt; capillary bristles greenish, iridescent 

 (burnished). Ventral bristles in three rows. 



Synonyms. 



1554. Physalus, Kondelet. De Piscibus, p. 428. 



1602. Scolopendra marina, Aldrovandus. Insect., p. 636, f. 1. 



1634. Physalus, Moufet. Tlieatr. Insect., f. 8—15. 



1677. Vermis aureus, Oligerus Jacobseus. Acta Haf nise, vol. iii, pp. 87, 88, and 89. 



„ „ „ Bartholinus. Act. Haf., vol. iii, p. 88, tab. 88. 



1684. Eruca marina Rondeletii pilis in dorso instar colli columbini variegatis, Sibbald. Scot. Illustr., 



vol. ii, p. 32. 



1686. Hystrix marina, Eedi. Opusc, vol. iii, tab. 35. 



1705. Scolopendra marina, Molyneux. Phil. Trans. Abridg., 1st edit., vol. ii, pp. 833 — 836, pi. xii, 



f. 234 and 235. 



1714. Eruca echinata marina griseo fusca. Barrelier. Plantse Grail., &c, p. 131, tab. 1284, n. 1. 

 1734. „ „ „ Seba. Thesaur., vol. i, p. 141, tab. 90, f. 1—3; vol. iii, 



p. 9, tab. 4, f. 7, 8 (1758). 



1746. Aphrodita nitens, Linn. Faun. Suec, p. 367, No. 1284; Mus. Adolph. Fred., p. 93. 

 1752. ,, elliptica versicolor, and the Sea Mouse, Hill. Hist. Anim., vol. iii, p. 90. 



„ „ subrotundata. Ibid., p. 91. 



1756. Mus marinus, Linn. Syst., edit. 1756, p. 79. 



1758. Physalus, Swammerdam. Biblia Naturge (transl.), vol. ii, p. 150, tab. 10. 



1762. Aphrodita aculeata, Baster. Opusc. Subs., vol. ii, 2, p. 62, tab. 6, f. 1 — 4. 



1765. „ „ Gunner. Trondh. Selsk. Skrift, vol. iii, pp. 59—80, tab. 88. 



1766. „ „ Pallas. Misc. Zool., p. 77, tab. vii, f. 1—13. 



1768. „ ,, Gunner. K. Norske Selsk. Skrift, vol. iv, p. 95, tab. 10. 



„ Physalus, Jonston. Hist. Nat., vol. iv, tab. 28. 



1776. Aphrodita aculeata, O. F. Miiller. Zool. Dan. Prod., p. 218, No. 2641. 



1777. ,, ,, Penn. Brit. Zool., vol. iv, p. 44, pi. xxiii, f. 25, and edit. 1812, vol. iv, 



p. 86, tab. 25, f. 1. 

 1788. „ „ Herbst. Vers., Bd. ix, p. 50, tab. 11. 



1790. „ ,, Linn. Syst. Nat., Grmelin, t. i, pars 6, p. 3107. 



1791. Aphrodite herissee, Bruguiere. Encyclop. Meth., vol. vi, p. 85. 



1806. Aphrodita aculeata, Turton's Gmelin, vol. iv, p. 79. 



1807. „ „ Turton. Brit. Fauna, p. 136. 



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