96 WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 29. Nereis. 
A. Mouth furnifbed with a claw or forceps: 
Verficolor. Body fubdepreffed: peduncles pointed and, furnifhed with 
briftles. 
Mull. Wurm. p. 104. tab. 6. fig. 1--6. 
Inhabits European Seas; 4 inches long. 
Body with abour 85 fegments growing gradually flenderer be. 
hind, ochre.yellow with a dull red ftreak down the middle: 
sai] and anterior fegments of the body dirty greenifh ; towards 
the middle fhining with various iridefcent colours: upper- 
feelers 3, fhort, {ubulate ; lower ones 2, pellucid, conic; la- 
lateral ones-4, horny : /anies red. 
*NoZiluca, Body blue-green, with 23 fegments: hardly vifible to the 
naked eye. 
Barbut’s Worms, tab. 4, fig.8. Aman. acad. 3. tab. 3. 
Baker op. fubje, tab. 4. fig. 3. 
Thefe are found in moit feas, and are the animals which fre- 
- quently illuminate the water, making it appear as if on fire: 
they are extremely minute, pellucid and highly phofphoreous, 
giving an uncommonly lucid fplendor to the waves in an 
evening ; by their extreme numbers and fmallnefs they eafily 
elude obfervation, but they may be detected by pafling a 
{mail quantity of the water through blotting-paper. 
Fimbriata. Body fubdepreffed: peduncles cirrate, glandular. 
Mull. Wurm p. 144, tab. 8, fig. 1--5. 
Inhabits the Ba/tic: about 3 inches long, and linear. 
Body fulvous, with a blue line down the middle of the back and 
belly: Zead with 8 feelers: ta// terminated by 2 threads. 
<rmillaris. Body fubdepreffed: peduncles conic, with glandular cirri. 
Mull, Wurm. p.150, tab. Qy fig. 1--5. 
Inhabits the Northern Seas, and buries itfelf deep in the fand: 
about 15 lines long. ^ 
Body filiform, with 3 moniliform feelers each fide the head ; ar- 
ticulations about 120, all armed with a peduncle each fide 
tail ending in 2 long threads. 
Mols, — With lateral fafcicles of hairs above the peduncles. 
Inhabits Neravay Seas. Fn. Succ. 2097. 
*Delagica. Body above convex: peduncles cirrate and warty. 
Pennant. Brit. Zool. iv. p.47, tab. 25, figs 35. 
Bafier op, fubfe.2, p.133, tab. 6. fig. 6, 
Mult. Wurm, p. 140, tab. 7, fig. 1-23, 
ct, Hafu. 10, p.169,~tab. 2, fig. 10. 
Inhabits 
