108 Mr. Montagu's Description of several Marine Animals 



hind : from this part the membranaceous margin of the body is 

 detached. 



Length half an inch. 



Colour white, with a tinge of pink on the back. 



Both this and the preceding species have but rarely occurred , 

 and may prove to be entirely new ; at least I am unable to refer 

 to any figure or description of them. . 



Aphrodita Clava. 



Tab. VII. Eig. 3. 



Aphrodita squamata. GmeL Syst. p. 3108 ? Brit. ZooL t. 23. 



/.26? 

 Aphrodita punctata. Mull ZooL Ban. lii. p. 25. t. 96. /. I. 

 Prodr. p. 218. n. ^6^2? 



Body with about twenty-four joints, and as many peduncles 

 and fasciculate feet on each side ; the bristles yellow: squamae 

 twelve or thirteen pair, of an ochraceous-ycllow, mottled, and 

 speckled with purplish brown, palest at their anterior margin ; 

 these usually divide down the middle of the back, but in this 

 particular the animals of this class are variable, as much de- 

 pends on the state of extension or contraction : along each side 

 is a row of clavated cirri, with a slender appendage at their 

 tips, and just below the club, marked with a brown band; these 

 surround the animal, and might at the anterior end be mistaken 

 for tentacula; the lateral ones originate between the scales. 



Length an inch and a half. 



Of the various species of Aphrodita which have hitherto come 

 under inspection, this appears to be the nearest allied to A. squa- 

 mata; but as the greater part of them chiefly differ in less ob- 

 vious particulars than in general appearance, they require more 



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