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A more complete, well-preserved individual 
is in the collections of the Allan Hancock Foun¬ 
dation and comes from 35 miles west of Depoe 
Bay, Oregon, dredged in 60 to 74 fm. This is 
100 mm. long and has over 225 segments. The 
body is similarly long and slender, and tapers 
posteriorly. No color remains except for small, 
paired brown spots dorsally, at the sides, within 
the parapodial bases. The parapodial ligules 
are opaque white. The everted proboscis has 
about the same paragnathal formula as that de¬ 
scribed for the individual from Moffet Point. 
Notopodial falcigers are first present from seg¬ 
ment 46. A far posterior parapodium is shown 
in Figure 7 d. 
N. neoneanthes is characterized in having 
paragnaths on all areas of the proboscis, those 
of areas VII and VIII are most numerous; para- 
podia change posteriorly such that the dorsal 
ligule comes to be broad and long, carrying the 
dorsal cirrus to about midway its length. Aci- 
cula are black and occur singly in parapodial 
lobes; homogomph falcigers have a short ap¬ 
pendage with blunt tooth distally and fine teeth 
on the cutting edge. The body form is long and 
slender. In the last-named respect N. neone¬ 
anthes resembles N. procera Ehlers, but the two 
differ in their proboscidial arrangement and 
parapodial parts. In its high paragnathal count, 
it approaches N. eakini Hartman, but the latter 
has different parapodial parts. 
Holotype in the U. S. National Museum. 
Type locality. Off Moffet Point, Alaska, in 
60 fm. 
Distribution. Alaska and Oregon, in 60 to 
74 fm. 
Genus Platynereis Kinberg 
Platynereis agassizi (Ehlers) 
Nereis agassizi Ehlers, 1868: 542-546, pi. 23, 
fig. 1; Johnson, 1901: 399-400, pi. 4, fig. 
39-45; Berkeley, 1924: 292. 
Platynereis agassizi Moore, 1908: 344. 
Platynereis dumerilii agassizi Berkeley, 1942: 
192 . 
Collections. Stations 27-40 (1); 33-40 (3); 
97-40 (1); 129-40 (2); L 11-41 (4); L 20- 
41 (15). 
The individuals here recorded are smaller 
than those typical for central California, ap¬ 
proximating only one-half to two-thirds the size 
of the latter. P. agassizi has been widely re¬ 
ported from parts of the northeast Pacific. The 
present records are from southwestern Alaska, 
in 14 to 48 fm. 
Family GLYCERIDAE 
Genus Glycera Savigny 
Glycera capitata Oersted 
Glycera capitata Oersted, 1843: 196-198, fig. 
87-88, 90-94, 96, 99; Berkeley, \921a\ 411; 
Berkeley, 1942: 193. 
Collections. Stations 33-40 (1); 34-40 (2); 
51-40 (3); A 61-40 (1); CT 12-41 (1); 
D 3-41 (1); Lazy Bay (1); Seldovia (1). 
Originally known from Greenland, this spe¬ 
cies has since been reported from arctic and 
boreal seas. The present records are from south¬ 
western Alaska, in 17 to 150 fm. 
Genus Hemipodus Quatrefages 
Hemipodus borealis Johnson 
Hemipodus borealis Johnson, 1901: 411-412, 
pi. 10, fig. 104; Hartman, 1940: 244, pi. 43, 
fig. 121. 
Collections. Crab Bay, summer 1932, col¬ 
lected by E. F. Ricketts (1); Sitka, August 
1932, collected by E. F. Ricketts (2). 
The ringed prostomium and uniramous para- 
podia characterize this as a Hemipodus. It is 
the only known representative of the genus from 
Alaska. Its range is southward to western Mex¬ 
ico, in littoral sandy zones. 
