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their colours. We caught a Bcfantie, but it 

 was fmall and like the air-bladder of a fifli. 

 I had fcarce had it one day in fea-water, when 

 it died, as might be obferved by the tentacula, 

 which were diffolved into a flime ; and it be- 

 came as diflorted as thofe which are fometimes 

 brought to Europe in Spanifh brandy. The 

 defcription was made as foon as the animal was 

 got out of the water, and is as follows : 



Holotburia Fhyfalis, Befanties. Rumph. 

 Amboin. p. 49. The body is blown up, egg- 

 ihaped, tranfparent, with a yellowifh green 

 tail : the back is dark green, fliavp ; feven or 

 more veins came out of it, which are yellowifh 

 red before: the bill is fpiral, and of a yellow- 

 ifh-red colour: the tentacula are numerous, 

 the fhortcf*: are round, the middlemoft are the 

 tendered, tranfparent, and globofe at the top : 

 the remaining tentacula are petiolated, and are 

 longer than the refl: ; the one in the middle is 

 thicker and much longer than the others, and 

 dark blue : opp ate to thefe is a compounded 

 blue elevation en the other fide, which is per- 

 haps the fail which the animal expands in the 

 fca. 



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