18 Mr. Monracu’s Description of several new or rare Animals, 
with five branched appendages that partly surround it on the fore 
part, and two large bifid peduncles behind. | 
Length half an inch. 
One specimen only of this singular and gaudy animal has oc- 
curred; it was taken at low water on the rocks at Milton. 
APHRODITA. 
APHRODITA VIRIDIS. 
TAB. IV. Fig. 1. 
Aphrodita cirrhosa. Gmel. Syst. p. 3109? 
Body long, greenish, with about thirty-six fasciculi on each 
side, and covered with eighteen pairs of squamze, which appear 
a little speckled by reason of their being somewhat rugose : the 
fascicles are much divaricated, and between each scale is a 
fleshy filiform appendage terminated by an extremely fine fibre: 
tentacula four, setaceous : eyes four, small and black. 
Length three fourths of an inch. Rare. 
Possibly this is the cirrosa of Pallas, as it nearly accords in 
. the number of feet; and probably some of the scales of his were 
lost, as it is usual for them to be i in number about half those of | 
the feet. 
Many species of squamous Aphrodites are with difficulty 
conveyed, even in sea water, to a small distance, without being 
mutilated, especially with respect to the scales, which are ex- 
tremely deciduous: this circumstance is the occasion of great 
difficulty in ascertaining the species already described. 
AMPHI- 
