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similarly shaped, but with two serrations on the inner side of the long limb. Tbe sbgbt 
differences in tbe characters of tbe last mentioned series correspond with tbe close 
resemblances of tbe forms generally. Lirione agrees with tbe three last in ba^dng tbe 
branchial cirrus, but it is much shorter. There is only a single dorsal cirrus (in its usual 
position behind tbe bristle-tuft) in Amphinome vagans and in Eurythoe pacijica. 
Chloeia, Savigny. 
Chloeia jiava (Pallas) (PI. III. figs. 1 and 3 ; PI. Ia. figs. 7-9). 
Aphrodita flava, Pallas, Miscell. Zool., p. 97, pi. viii. figs. 7-11. 
Chloeia flava, Auctorum. 
Habitat. — Two examples were trawled at Station 233b (south of Japan), May 26tb, 
1875, in lat. 34° 18' N., and long. 133° 35' E., at a depth of 15 fathoms, amongst blue 
mud, the occurrence of Synapta in the same bottle bearing out the latter statement, though 
it would rather have been expected elsewhere. Surface temperature, 66° ‘3. The locality 
of the third specimen (a small one) is doubtfully marked “ Arafura Sea.” 
The range of this form is great — from Cape Verde to Amboina, and generally 
throughout the Indian Ocean and Chinese waters. 
Observations.— In his Miscellanea Zoologica, published in 1766, Pallas gives a very 
good account of the external characters of this form, one example of which Schlosser 
obtained for him from the shores of Bengal, whence it was fished uj) by the anchor 
of a Belgian trader, while the other came from Amboyna. Pallas gave it the name 
of Aphrodita flava, from the fancied resemblance of the colour of the bristles to the 
locks of Dione, the mother of Aphrodite (Venus). Gmelin then included it in his 
edition (1788) of Linnmus as Terebella flava.^ Bruguieres next mentioned the same 
form under the name of Amphinome cajoillata.^ Eisso ® afterwards described a new form 
[Chloeia rupjestris) from the Mediterranean, a fact which escaped the notice of some of 
his successors. Cuvier* then joined the two species as Amphinome jaune ou chevelue. 
Savigny,® again, established the genus Chloeia, in the fourth family of his Amphinomidse, 
entering the same species as Chloeia capillata — the name given to it by his countryman 
being chosen rather than the rightful one of Pallas. This author and several others state 
that the eyes are only two ; but there are really four, two on each side. Audouin and 
M. -Edwards ® followed the latter, and pointed out the serrated condition of the dorsal 
bristles, and the bifurcated nature of the ventral bristles. They also only knew of the 
single form described by Pallas. Grube likewise gave Chloeia only two eyesd and both 
1 Loc. cit, p. 3114, No. 7. 
2 Encycl. mdtfi., Diet, des vers, i. p. 45, No. 1, pi. lx. figs. 1-5. ^ ]^^t. Eur. merid., iv. p. 425. 
^ Diet. d. Sci. Nat., t. ii. p. 71 ; and Eegne Anim., t. ii. p. 527, edit. 3, pi. ix. 
® Syst. des Ann61. p. 58. ® Hist. Nat. des Annel., p. 120. ^ Earn, der Anneliden, pp. 40 and 121. 
