. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. LeodicidcB from Fiji and Samoa. 167 hintere mediane," while Mcintosh's description of the type is that "superiorly the free edge of the foot presents two prominent mammillse, between which the bristles of the region ; This is not in entire agreement with his figure, but is quite in accord with the conditions found in the Samoan and Hawaiian specimens and quite unlike those described by Augener. Augener followed Benham in his identification of his specimens with those of Mcintosh and Tread well, explaining the differences a
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. LeodicidcB from Fiji and Samoa. 167 hintere mediane," while Mcintosh's description of the type is that "superiorly the free edge of the foot presents two prominent mammillse, between which the bristles of the region ; This is not in entire agreement with his figure, but is quite in accord with the conditions found in the Samoan and Hawaiian specimens and quite unlike those described by Augener. Augener followed Benham in his identification of his specimens with those of Mcintosh and Tread well, explaining the differences as due to poor preservation. It seems to me evident that the species described by Benham and Augener are not the same as the ones I have seen from Hawaii and Samoa, which I regard as belonging to Mcintosh's species. Several specimens were collected on Aua reef in Pago Pago Harbor in rocks near the upper end of the harbor and one on the reef at Aunuu. They are very sensitive to changes in the water and most of them died before they could be got to the laboratory. In the living animal the prostomium has a faint pink color on the anterior margin, but this fades out on the dorsal surface. The palps are colorless or only faintly tinted with pink. The peristo- mium is pink, this color being most intense along the posterior edges of the antero-lateral depressions and on the "; The first 6 somites show a pink color which is most intense along the anterior margins, but behind the region of somite 6 the pink color disappears and is replaced by a decided yellow. No color persists in the preserved material. The prostomium is rounded (plate 8, fig. 1), not more than one-third the diameter of the peristomium. The palps are large, thick at the base, unjointed, and with rather blunt tips. The tentacles are less than half the diameter of the palps at the base and not more than three-quarters as long as they, and are jointed only toward the apices. There are two pairs of eyes
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