Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1919 — John Shaqi
Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1919Various
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Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1919
Various
Entomology -- California -- Periodicals; Entomology -- Periodicals; Zoology -- California -- Periodicals; Zoology -- Periodicals
This form seems to be close to _P. alata_ Moore. The type, which is
much smaller than that of _alata_, differs in various details from the
description of the latter. The principal lateral wings are confined
to the third segment and are united across the dorsum of third somite
instead of involving the anterior border of IV and crossing the latter
above; connecting dorsal fold low and lacking any forwardly directed
process; the wing rises as a high, rounded lobe on each side just
below level of setigerous tubercles, rising high above the middorsal
surface. In addition to the prominent wings on III there is on IV on
each side a much lower ridge or wing paralleling that on III, this not
more prominent above. Unlike those of _alata_, somites II and III are
not confounded laterally but are distinct throughout. Prostomium short.
Tentacles mostly lost in type; rather slender, not long, apparently
in but a single transverse series. Peristomium deeply excavated at
middle below, the bottom of the excavation rounded and the peristomium
produced on each side of this into the usual large lobes. The branchiæ,
as in the genotype and other species, strongly asymmetrically
developed. The right anterior branchia is much the largest, the trunk
very long, with the left anterior much smaller. Of the posterior pair,
the right, unlike that of _alata_, is also much larger than the left
one. In the type the sternal plates are not sharply differentiated.
The manubriate uncini of V have the general form of those in _alata_,
but the bulge below the beak is much larger and more rounded with the
subrostral tooth more obtuse and nearer the middle of the oblique edge;
beak less divergent from manubrium; vertex with three transverse series
of denticles. The color in the abdominal region light fulvous, in the
thoracic darker with a narrow brownish stripe along caudal border of
each segment laterally and ventrally. Type not quite complete caudally,
retaining eighty somites.
Length, 36 mm.; greatest width, 2.8 mm.
Type--M. C. Z. 2, 168.
The wall of the tube is composed of sand and shell fragments.
_Naneva_ gen. nov.
Prostomium short; with numerous tentacular filaments. Uncini avicular
and of same form throughout. Setæ beginning on third somite; tips
simple. Uncini beginning on the fourth somite. No lateral foliaceous
lobes on the anterior segments. Branchiæ two pairs; branched; attached
on somites II and III.
_Genotype_--_N. hespera_ sp. nov.
Differs from Thelepus and Athelepus in having the branchiæ branched
instead of simple and in having the uncini begin on IV.
_Naneva hespera_ sp. nov.
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