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notch, and with two shghtly longer anterior ligulae ; with wreath- 

 like vesicular dorsal gills occuring from the 20tli parapodium 

 posteriorly ; ventral cirrus bluntly rounded ; small dorsal cirrus 

 arising from parapodial base. 



Proboscis clul)-shaped, with small oval leaf-like papillao ; 

 basal prolongation of jaws a triangular plate with a long process. 



Habitat : — Suruga Bay, 05 fathoms (" Albatross ") ; Sagami 

 Bay (Iv. A.0K1). 



Glycera capitata Oersted. 



PI. XXIIT, figs. 11—13. 



1843. Glj-cera capitata, 0(H-stsd, Grünlands Anmüata dorsibrancliiata, 



p. 19(>, PL VII, figs. 87, 88, 90—94. 

 1845. Glycera allja, Jolmstoii. Miscellanea Zoologica, p. 147, PI. IX, 



figs. 1—10. 

 1850. Gl^'cera capitata, Grube. Farn. d. Annel , p. 308. 

 18G5. Glycera niiilleri, de Quatrefages. Histoire des Annelés II, p. 172. 

 1868. Glycera capitata, Ehlers. Die Borstenwürmer, p. G48, Taf. 



XXni, Fig. 47-49. 



Body long, consisting of 150 — 180 segments; length 03 — 82 

 nnn. ; maximum breadth 3 — ^3.5 mm. excluding parapodia. 



Prostomium conical, having 8 annuli. Segments 3-ringed. 



Parapodium sliort (fig. 11), provided witli a single posterior 

 ligula, and two antei'ior hgula), of which the superior is short 

 and tlic infiTJor Jong and conical ; dorsal cirrus short and small, 

 situated a sliort distance dorsad from l)ase of parapodium; 

 ventral I'irrns lon-j; and \\ifli rathoi' broad end. 



Proboscis long, club-sliaped ; most of its papilla) are long 

 and tiliform (fig. 12), wliilc the remaining papilla) are short and 



