. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. WOODWORTH : THE PALOLO WORM. 11 On the day before the 'rising' of the " Palolo " (the motusaga day of the natives, see infra), a small annelid, headless like it, and the sexes also distinguished by brown and greenish tints, makes its appearance in large numbers. It is this small worm that in my preliminary paper (1903) I ascribed to Lysidice falax, the name that Eiders gave to the Lysidice-head figured by Macdonald, and for so long believed to be the. >}>.ep Figure 2. Longitudinal medium secti
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. WOODWORTH : THE PALOLO WORM. 11 On the day before the 'rising' of the " Palolo " (the motusaga day of the natives, see infra), a small annelid, headless like it, and the sexes also distinguished by brown and greenish tints, makes its appearance in large numbers. It is this small worm that in my preliminary paper (1903) I ascribed to Lysidice falax, the name that Eiders gave to the Lysidice-head figured by Macdonald, and for so long believed to be the. >}>.ep Figure 2. Longitudinal medium section of one of the ventral eye-spots of the " ; After Hesse. X 400. v. n. c, ventral nerve-cord ; p. m., pigment mass ; ep., epithelium. real head of the " ; This small headless worm, a diminutive " Palolo," does not belong to L. falax. I have complete specimens of the latter which in no way exhibit any heteramorphosis or differentiation between the anterior and posterior regions. A description of L. falax is reserved for a subsequent paper on Eunicidae from the reefs of the Pacific Islands. To the little " Palolo " of motusaga day I give the ten- tative name Eunire dubia. The segments have the same general shape as those of the "Palolo" and measure, in alcoholic material, about mm ; in diameter, being slightly shorter than broad (Figs. 4 and 5). As. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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