PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM by the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM Vol. 83 Washington: 1936 No. 2984 POLYCHAETOUS ANNELIDS FROM AMOY, CHINA By Aaron L. Treadwell Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. C. C. A. Monro (1934) has listed 40 species of polychaets from the coast of Cliina, most of which were from Amoy and collected by Dr. T. Y. Chen, of the University of Amoy. The following report is upon a smaller collection of annelids, also made by Dr. Chen, from the neighborhood of Amoy and presented by him to the United ^States National Museum. It comprises but 31 specimens yet represents 21 species. Eight are apparently new: Two species of polynoids, Lepidonotus minutus and Lepidasthenia ocellata; a leodicid, Marphysa orientalis; four nereids, Nereis {Neanthes) linea, N. (Neanthes) orientalis, N. {Nereis) amoyensis, and A^. {Leptonereis) distorta; and a cirratuhd, Cirratulus branchiatus. Only five — Chloeia Jlava, Lysidice collaris, Marphysa sinensis, Nereis {Neanthes) oxypoda, and Nephthys sinensis — are common to both collections. The material on the whole is well preserved, but since in most cases onl}^ one individual of a species is present, there is a degree of un-certainty in the diagnosis of new species. Monro made similar comment on the collections he studied. Family AMPHINOMIDAE Genus CHLOEIA Savigny CHLOEIA FLAVA (Pallas) Aphrodiia fiava Pallas, 1766, p. 97-102, pi. 8, figs. 7-11. One specimen (Chen no. 21). 49206—36 1 261
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