AUTOLYTUS EDWARDSI. 461 
Autotytus punctatus, De St. Joseph, 1886. Plate CXXXV, fig. 17—head and anterior 
region. 
Specitic Characters.—Head of moderate size, with the anterior eyes large, the lenses 
projecting in front, the posterior pair smaller, with the lenses projecting backward. The 
median tentacle long, and so with the dorsal cirri of the first setigerous segment. Body 
in general larger than in A. Hhbiensis, colourless, except a faint tinge of orange at the ex- 
tremities of the head and the first three segments. Hach segment, except the buccal, bears 
a double transverse row of small greyish glands. The feet are typical. Proboscis short 
and straight, furnished with twelve obtuse denticulations anteriorly, alternating with another 
twelve pointed processes longer than those of A. Hhbiensis. Reproduces by stolons. 
SYNONYMS. 
1886. Autolytus punctatus, De St. Joseph. Ann. Se. nat., 7° sér., t. i, p. 233, pl. xi, figs. 1O8—109. 
1893. A FS Malaquin. Syllidiens, p. 80. 
1914. fs re Southern. Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. xxxi, No. 47, p. 42. 
1915. 4a is Allen. Journ. M. B. A., n.s., vol. x, p. 605. 
1921. 5 s5 McIntosh. Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. viii, p. 308. 
Habitat—Blacksod Bay in Laminarian roots (Southern), Queen’s Ground, and on the 
Kddystone trawling grounds, Plymouth (Allen). 
Elsewhere it has been found at Dinard, France (De St. Joseph): Boulogne (Malaquin). 
De St. Joseph mentions that it reproduces by a single stolon or by a chain of stolons. 
He observed both male and female buds. Allen procured specimens at Plymouth with 
stolons from May to June. The head and anterior region are represented in Plate CXX XV, 
ne, L'a 
Avutotytus EHpwarpst, De St. Joseph, 1886. Plate CXXXV, fig. 18—head and anterior 
region. 
Specific Characters—Head rounded, with four eyes behind the tentacles, which are 
slender. Body about 14 mm. long anteriorly, with a longitudinal streak of orange on each 
side of the dorsum in the nurse-stock. The dorsal cirrus of the second segment long, that 
of the third much shorter, whilst those which follow are nearly equal. The appendages 
of the head and the first three segments have their tips coloured orange. The proboscis 
has twenty-four small denticulations, and the reddish proventriculus is elongate and occupies 
seoments 7—9. Bristles typical; that with an awl-shaped tip appears in the twenty-third 
seement. Reproduction by stolons, which have a pale-orange colour. 
SYNONYMS. 
1886. Autolytus Hdwardsi, De St. Joseph. Ann. Sc. nat., 7° serv., t. 1, p. 235, pl. x1, fig. 110. 
1893. 3 as Malaquin. Syllidiens, p. 80, pl. viu, etc. 
1914. 5 ap Southern. Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. xxxi, No. 47, p. 43. 
1915. 9 ss Allen. Journ. M. B. A., x, p. 605. 
1921. + ‘ McIntosh. Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. vii, p. 308, 
