PAPILLATKD SYRINX. 



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S1PUNCULIDX. 



SIPUNCULACEIE. 



PAPILLATED SYRINX. 



Syrinx papillosus. Thompson. 



Specific Character. — Brownish or mottled ; skin striated concentrically, and 

 covered with brown papillae. 



Sipunculus papillosus, Thompson, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. V. No. 29, p. 101. 

 (April 1840.) 



This handsome species, measuring four inches in length, 

 and portly in proportion, appears to have escaped descrip- 

 tion until very lately, when Mr. Thompson had the plea- 

 sure of introducing it to the public, characterizing it from 

 specimens obtained at Miltown Malbay, on the coast of 

 Clare, by Mr. Harvey, and at the south islands of Arran, 

 Ireland, by Mr. Ball. Captain Portlock has taken many 

 specimens on the north coast of Ireland ; and its geogra- 

 phical range would appear to be extensive, as Mr. Gray 

 showed me a bottle full of specimens in the British 

 Museum, which came from the West Indies. According 

 to Mr. Harvey, it lives under stones among sand-covered 

 rocks. It is of a brownish white colour, often with dark 

 markings of brown, and has its tough skin finely striated 

 longitudinally and concentrically, and covered with brown 

 papillae, which arc more numerous on the sides than on the 



