344 Mr. Most Acxj's Descriptions of Terehella, <^c. 



Spec. 5. Terebella venustula. 

 Tab. XIII. Fig. 2. 



T. with orange-red body, thickly and minutely marked with 



white spots. 

 First seventeen or eighteen joints furnished with short peduncles 

 and fasciculi : other joints with long peduncles and no visible 

 bristles. Capillary appendages whitish, very slender, numerous, 

 and nearly double the length of the body. We have observed 

 this animal fixing its tentacula, and by contracting them draw- 

 ing its body forwards. 

 Length rarely more than three or four inches. 



Taken by dredging on the southern coast of Devon at Tor- 

 cross. 



XX. Cha- 



