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
In size and general appearance resembling _M. pacifica_ Johnson, with
the type of which it has been compared. From that form the present
one may readily be distinguished in having the ventral median process
from the first segment drawn out into a slender entire tip instead of
being broad and presenting distally two angles or lobes; the process
is furrowed longitudinally and the edges are somewhat turned down.
Branchiæ twenty-two pairs. Readily distinguished by the form of the
abdominal uncini. These have the general form of those of _pacifica_
but as a whole are longer with the body proportionately more slender
and its abvertigial end more rounded; the beak is longer and less
divergent, distally curving a little back toward the body; the sides
of the sinus parallel. The body in the type is somewhat fusiform,
being narrowed both ways from the middle but more strongly so caudad.
In a paratype the body is scarcely narrowed cephalad. Body somewhat
depressed dorsoventrally, less terete than in pacifica. Total number of
segments near seventy.
Length of type, exclusive of branchiæ, 40 mm.; greatest width, 6.2 mm.
Type--M. C. Z. 2, 170.
Taken from holdfasts of seaweeds.
_Potamilla clara_ sp. nov.
The body in general light brown; but ventrally there is a median
longitudinal fulvous stripe over the ventral plates. The branchiæ are
crossed by a series of dark bands or annuli which fade out proximally,
about three distad of the middle of length being deep and distinct.
There are nineteen pairs of branchial radioles; barbs numerous, densely
arranged to near tip, the naked distal region of axis very short, pale
excepting where partially or completely involved by the transverse dark
bands. Ventral lobes of collar moderate, rounded, edges a little rolled
down; dorsal ends separated; no lateral incisions, being but two-lobed;
not produced forward below, lobes rounded and separated. Thoracic
segments eight. Ventral plates all rectangular, those of the abdomen
divided by the midventral sulcus. Total number of segments, sixty.
Length without branchiæ, 21 mm.; length with branchiæ, 28 mm.; greatest
width, 3 mm.
Type--M. C. Z. 2, 171.
Taken on beach at low tide.
_Potamilla omissa_ sp. nov.
The general color is dusky or pale brownish with the anterior ventral
plates lighter and the branchiæ rather weakly transversely banded with
dark. Radioles of branchiæ in a simple series; seventeen pairs. Collar
well developed, produced forward below in two pointed lobes overlapping
at the middle. Eight setigerous thoracic somites. Most dorsal thoracic
setæ in each fascicle long and finely pointed with wings narrow; the
ventral setæ much more numerous, shorter, spatulate, with fine tip.
The uncini have the posterior process very short, rounded at the end,
much shorter and more slender than the neck, which is rather strongly
curved; vertex high and narrowly rounded; beak not strongly depressed.
Type incomplete, only seven of the abdominal segments being present.
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