. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 394 Plëione, Sav. (AmpMnome, Blainv.), which, with the same tentacles, have crest-like gills. These also are from the East ladies, and attain a great size. To these may be added Eitphrosine, Sav., which has but one tentacle to the head, together with arbuscular gills, very much developed and complicated ; and to which the genus Anisteria, Sav., established on a mutilated individual, should probably be approximated ; and, lastly, Hipponoe, Audouin & Edwards, which, devoid of caruncle, has only one cirrh
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 394 Plëione, Sav. (AmpMnome, Blainv.), which, with the same tentacles, have crest-like gills. These also are from the East ladies, and attain a great size. To these may be added Eitphrosine, Sav., which has but one tentacle to the head, together with arbuscular gills, very much developed and complicated ; and to which the genus Anisteria, Sav., established on a mutilated individual, should probably be approximated ; and, lastly, Hipponoe, Audouin & Edwards, which, devoid of caruncle, has only one cirrhus and packet of bristles to each foot. There is one at Port Jackson, H. Gaudichaudii, And. & Ed. Eunice, Cuv.— Fig. ,e laoreita. j^ jj^ewisc furnishcd witU tuft-likc gills, but the trunk is formidably armed with three pairs of differently-formed horuy jaws ; each of their feet has two cirrhi and a bundle of bristles ; and there are five tentacles upon the head above the mouth and two on the neck. Some species only exhibit two small eyes. M. Savigny's family of Eunices is constituted by this division, and the particular genus is termed by him Leodice. A species, from one to four feet in length, inhabits the sea around the Antilles (£. gigantea, Cuv.), which is the largest Annelide known. Some upon our coasts are much smaller. M. Savigny distinguishes by the name of MarpMsia certain species, otherwise very similar, which have no nuchal tentacles, and the upper cirrhus of which is very short, as Nereis sanguinea, Montagu. An allied species (iV. tubicola, MuUer), inhabits a horny tube. After these genera with complex branchiae, are placed those in which the organs adverted to are reduced to simple laminae, or even to slight tubercles, or which, lastly, are represented only by the cirrhi. Some of them resemble Eunice by the powerful armature of the trunk, and by their antennae of unequal number. Such are Lycidice, Sav.,— Which, together with the jaws of Eun
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