944 Mr. Montacu’s Descriptions of Terebella, $c. 
Spec. 5. TEREBELLA VENUSTULA. 
Tas. XIII. Fre. 2. 
T. with orange-red body, thickly and minutely marked with 
' white spots. 
First seventeen or eighteen joints furnished with short peduncles 
and fasciculi: other joints with long peduncles and no visible 
bristles.’ Capillary appendages whitish, very slender, numerous, 
and nearly double the length of the body. We have observed 
this animal fixing its tentacula, and by contracting them draw- 
ing its body forwards. 
Length rarely more than three or four inches. 
Taken by RE on the southern coast of Devon at Tore 
cross. 
. XX. Cha- 
