274 LEPIDONOTUS SQUAMATUS. 



1. Lepidonotus squamatus, Linnaeus, 1788. Plate XXV, fig. 1. 



Specific Characters. — Lateral tentacles longer than the cephalic lobe, median tentacle, 

 tentacular cirri, buccal and dorsal cirri inflated below the apex, smooth. Palpi 

 elongated and tapering, but in spirit scarcely longer than the median tentacle, the basal 

 part of which equals the length of the cephalic lobe. Scales ovate and reniform, 

 studded with chitinous bosses and ciliated on the outer margin. Bristled segments 

 twenty-six. Dorsal bristles long, tapering, and finely serrated, longer than those of 

 L. clava. Ventral bristles stout, with a short series of spikes on the distal and slightly 

 thickened portion of the shaft below the falcate apex. The distal row has two longer 

 spines. Ventral nerve-cords comparatively small, lying within the dense cuticle and thin 

 granular layer of the epiderm, and in the area between the attachments of the oblique 

 muscles ; only connective tissue internally. 



Synonyms. 



1766. Aphrodita squamata, Linn. Syst. Nat., 12th edit., p. 1084. 



1788. „ „ „ „ (G-melin) p. 3107. 



1765. „ „ Baster. Opusc, subsec. ii, 2, p. 66, tab. vi, f. 5, A, B, C, D. 



1766. „ „ Pallas. Misc. Zool., p. 91, tab. vii, f. 14 a— d, 

 1768. ,, „ Pennant. Brit. Zool., iv, tab. xxiii, f. 26. 

 1776. „ punctata, 0. F. Muller. Prod. Zool. Dan., p. 218, n. 2642. 



1789. „ „ Abildgaard. Zool. Dan., iii, p. 25, tab. xcvi, f. 1 — 4. 



1800. Die gediipfelte Aphrodite, O. F. Muller. Natnrges einiger Wnrm-Arten, p. 170, tab. xiii. 



1816 — 1830. Aphrodita squamata, Cnvier. Diet, des Sc. Nat., ii, p. 283. 



1820. Polynoe squamata, Savigny. Syst., 22. 



1828. Eumolpe squamata, Blainville. Diet, des Sc. Nat., lviii, p. 458, pi. ix, f. 2. 



1834. Polynoe squamata, Aud. & Ed. Annel., p. 80, tab. i, f. 10 — 16. 



1839. „ „ Johnston. Ann. Nat. Hist., ii, p. 432, tab. xxii, fig. 1. 



1840. „ „ Grube. Actin. Echinod. u. Wiir., p. 87. 



1843. Lepidonote punctata, CErsted. Annul. Danic. Conspect., p. 12, f. 2, 5, 39, 41, 47, 48. 



„ Lepidonotus squamatus, H. Bathke. Beitrage z. Faun. Norweg., 149. 

 1851. Polynoe squamata, Maitland. Fauna Belg., p. 213. 



1855. ? Lepidonote armadillo, Leidy. Mar. Invert. Bh. Is. & N. J., p. 16, pi. ii, f. 54. 

 1858. Lepidonotus squamatus, Kinberg. Freg. Eugen. Besa, p. 13, tab. iv, f. 15. 

 1860. Polynoe squamata, Sars. Yid.-Selsk., Forhandl. for 1860, p. 4 (sep. copy), 57 (original copy). 

 1865. Lepidonotus squamatus, Johnston. Cat. B. M., p. 109, pi. viii, f. 1. 

 „ ,, Malmgren. Nord. Hafs. Ann., p. 56. 



„ Polynoe dasypus, De Quatrefages. Hist. Ann., i, p. 266. 



1873. Lepidonotus squamatus, Willemoes-Suhm. Zeitsch. f. w. Zool., xxiii, p. 347. 



Yerrill. Invert. An. Yin. S., Bept. IT. S. Fish., i, p. 581, pi. x,f. 40, 41. 



1874. „ „ Mobius. Untersuchung. d. Ostsee, p. 112. 



Mcintosh. Ann. Nat. Hist., April, 1874, p. 261. 



1875. „ „ Mcintosh. Invert, and Fishes St. And., p. 115. 

 1877. „ ,, Huxley. Man. Invert., p. 227, &c. 



1879. „ squamata, Webster. Annel. Cheet. Yirgin., p. 4. 



„ squamatus, Tauber. Ann. Danic, p. 79. 



