gg WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 32. Salpa. 
The animals of this Genus are of a gregarious nature, and-often . 
adhere together; they {wim with great facility, and have the 
power of contracting or opening at pleafure the cavities at the 
extremities. 
A, Furnifbed with an appendage, 
f 
Maxima, Body with a {mall appendage at each extremity. - 
Inhabits the Mdediterranean. Nat. Mifel. vii, tab. 232. 
Body hyaline ‘with a blucifh caft, about a fpan long, fomewhat . 
quadrangular, with a dull ieftaceous ípot at the lewer end; 
the lower appendage is fubulate, the upper conic. 
Pinnata, Mouth terminal: back with-a yellow and white line: ab- 
'* domen with 2 reddifh-white lines. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, Forjg. fu. Arab. p. 113. m. 21. 
Body about 2 inches long, nearly triangular, hyaline with aa 
opake line on the back: appeudage refembling a fin, and ra- 
ther triangular. 
Democrati- Body fafciate and prickly behind. 
E Shatv Natur Mifcel. tab. 236. — Forft. ZFEgypt. fe V13, 8. 52. 
Inhabits the Mediterraneax, in large groupes, and fwimming 
confufedly in all directions: about an inch long.  . 
Body oval, truncate before and ending in about 8 {pines behind, 
with a blueifh nucleus at the bafe or a radiate circle. 
Mucronata, Mouth lateral: front with a hyaline fpine placed on the 
right fide, and another at the tail placed on the left 
fide: nucleus er {pot behind oblong and blue. 
V 70 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Forfe. fa. Arab. p. 314, n. 33. 
Body about an inch leng, oblong-ovate, pointed behind: xucleus 
opake, 
T. « B. Without the terminal appendage. 
Punflata. Mooth nearly terminal: back dotted with red and mucro- 
' nate behind: tail projecting. : 
7Inhabits the Mediterranean. | Forsk, fn. ZEgypt. p. V4. 7: 34- 
Body about an inch and a half long, hyaline with obíolete bands 
on the abdomen: wueleus or {pot near the tail opake 2nd yel- 
lowifh-ferruginous, 
Confedera- Mouth terminal: back gibbous. 
fa. Inhabits the Mediterranean. Forsk. fu. Arab. p. 115. 71, 35. 
Body about an inch long, nearly quadrangnlar, hyaline, foft, 
with a globular-ovate nucleus behind the gibbofity of the back, 
opake and reddifh-brown with a pellucid line proceeding 
frem ity 
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Faftiata, 
