_Leodice monilifer_ sp. nov.
Yellow in color. Body strongly narrowed caudad. Prostomium short and
broad. The palpal lobes large and rounded, bulging conspicuously
forward and ventrad; separated by a deep furrow. Tentacles in a
slightly curved transverse line, the outer paired tentacle on each
side lying a little farther forward than the inner. Ceratophores very
short and not broader than bases of styles, exceeded by the first
segment of style which about equals the next two in length. The styles
in general strongly moniliform, the articles short and well rounded.
The styles in types short but not in any case certainly complete; the
number of articles present from nine to twelve. The peristomium much
longer than the prostomium than which it is also clearly wider and
higher; entire second somite very short, not more than one-fourth
as long as I. Nuchal cirri short and conical, much shorter than the
peristomium, transversely wrinkled or sometimes distinctly annulated.
Notocirri slenderly conical, becoming more slender in posterior region
as usual; with some weak encircling wrinkles but not distinctly divided
into articles. Branchiæ begin as single filaments on IX or sometimes
on VIII. Branchiæ of X each consisting of two filaments. The number
in several of the succeeding branchiæ increases to three, then again
falling to two, and, finally, the last eight pairs or so are again
simple filaments. The last branchiæ in the type occur on XXXII. Anal
cirri short, slenderly conical. Maxillae strongly chitinized; brown,
with edges in part black. In maxillae II the right plate has six large
teeth, the outer left plate four and the odd or inner left plate seven
or eight. III with nine teeth or crenulatious. Number of segments in
type one hundred and nine.
Length, 43 mm.; greatest width, exclusive of parapodia, 2.6 mm. An
incomplete larger specimen has a width of 3.2 mm.
Type--M. C. Z. 2, 154.