7¥d)<£ Z7 Vol. 85, No. 48, pp. 549-556 30 December 1972 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON TWO NEW SPECIES AND TWO NEW RECORDS OF THE FAMILY PARAONIDAE (ANNELIDA, POLYCHAETA) FROM THE NORTHEASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN By Katharine D. Hobson Marine Biology Division, B.C. Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia During studies of some Paraonidae of the northeastern Pacific Ocean, two species new to science and specimens that extend the known distributions of two other species were encountered and are described below. The material has been deposited in the Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles ( AHF ) ; the British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria (BCPM); the Friday Harbor Laboratories, Friday Harbor, Washington ( FHL ) ; the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Wash-ington, D.C. (USNM); and the author's collection (KDH). I am grateful to Dr. Kristian Fauchald and to Dr. Marian H. Pettibone for the loan of material from the Allan Hancock Foundation and the National Museum of Natural History, respectively, and for helpful criticism of the manuscript. Paraonidae Aricidea Webster Aricidea neosuecica Hartman Figure la Aricidea neosuecica Hartman, 1965, p. 137. — Hartman, 1969, p. 63, fig. 1.— Hartman and Fauchald, 1971, p. 96, pi. 13, figs. d-f. Aricidea near suecica. — Hartman, 1957, p. 319, pi. 43, fig. 7 (part). Aricidea jeffreysii. — Berkeley and Berkeley, 1950, p. 55, fig. 3. — Berkeley and Berkeley, 1952, p. 39, figs. 70-73. Not Scolecolepis (?) Jeffreysii Mcintosh, 1879. Material examined: Slope off Massachusetts, 39° 47' N, 70° 45' W, 1,500 meters, Atlantis Sta. Fl, 24 May 1961, holotype (Poly 0488) and 48— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 85, 1972 (549)
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