70 VERMES. 
Prate VIII. 
Fic. 1. Gordius maximus, the Sea Long Worm; adult. 
2. Anterior part of an adult, shewing the marginal cleft. 
3. Young specimen. 
4. Anterior portion of the same, shewing two black specks on the sur- 
face of the front, enlarged. 
5. The same specimen half a year after its delineation, as fig. 3. 
. The same after having been kept twenty-two months from the first. 
7. Anterior portion, which, for preservation, had been severed from 
the body of a specimen, and subsequently regenerated the lower 
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extremity. 
8. Cluster of ova, enlarged. 
9. A few detached ova, enlarged. 
10. Ova, of the natural size. 
Prate IX. 
Fic. 1. Gordius maximus, intestine. 
C.—Gorpius ranta—The Ribband Gordius.—Plate X. Figs. 1, 2. 
Length sixteen inches or more ; breadth of the anterior above a 
line. The head and sides of the anterior cleft ; mouth a slit below, very 
conspicuous. Colour from dull reddish-brown to pale red ; belly paler. 
A white stripe traverses the whole length of the back, which is divided 
in the centre by a dark line, thus rendering the animal very like a rib- 
band.—Plate X. figs. 1, 2. 
The colour of the back consists of five’ lines, the two exterior stripes 
being the broadest, having a white line withm each, and the central dark 
line between them. No specks or eyes have been discovered. The ex- 
tremity of the anterior is white. 
This animal takes shelter in empty shells, or im the tubes of other 
tenants of the deep, from which it may be dislodged by vitiating the 
water. But it is the last of all that I have seen, which, yielding to the 
offensive medium, quits its haunts. 
On June 1, a vast quantity of spawn, consisting of innumerable 
minute spherical white ova, figs. 3,4, amidst a thin glairy matter, ap- 
