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the ill-defined slioulder, after which the shaft is cyhiidrical, 

 lacking all processes. 



Habitat : — A single specimen trawled at station 235, " south 



of Yedo in Japan," 565 fathoms (" Challenger "]. 



Genus Ifarniothoë Kinberg. 



Prostoniium bilobed, prolonged in front into two acuminate or 

 rounded peidvs. Lateral tentacles inserted below tlie level of the 

 niedinn. l)Oth rami of parapodia prolonged into a linger-like process 

 beyond the insertion of bristles. Dorsal bristles as strong as or 

 stronger than ventral bristles, never very short and often longer than 

 the latter. Both dorsal and ventral bristles serrated for a consider- 

 able part of their exposed length. Body never very long ; seg- 

 ments not exceeding forty in number; elytra in 12-16 pairs. 



Harniotlioë Imhr t'enta (L.) 



PI. V, ligs. 1—4 ; PI. VI, tig. 1. 



1766. Aphroditîi lepidota, PalLis. Miscell. ZooL, p. 94. Tab. 7, fig. 

 15; Tab. 8, f. 1, 2. 

 „ Apliiodita imbricata, L. Syst. Nat , twelfth edit., Vol. i, p. 1084. 

 1768. Aplirodita violacea, Strum. Kongel. Norsk. Vidensk. Selskabs. 



Skrifter. Del iv, p. 066. 

 177(5. Aplirodita cirrata, O. F. Müll. Prod. Zool. Dan., p. 218, u. 2644. 

 „ ,, violacea, idem. Ibid., p. 218, n. 2645. 



,, ,, lepidota, idem. Ibid,, p. 218. n. 2643. 



,, Dio ilaclio Aplirodita, Martini. Allgem. Geschichte der Natur, 



iii, p. 1:î2. 

 „ Aplirodita imbricata (Ziegelrücken Aphrodite), Martiui. Ibid., 

 iii, p. 151. 

 1780. Aphrodita violacea, Fabricius, O. Faima Gröul., p. 308, 11. 290, 

 Tal). 1. f]-. 7. 



