TUE FAUNA OF LIVERPOOL. 

 M-SRIANDEIDA FaSCIATA. 



Hilbre. 

 Nepthys Hombeegii. 



Hilbre. 

 POLYNOE CiRRATA. 



Hilbre, New Brighton. On other places in rocky pools. 



PoLYNOE SqUAMATA. 



Found as the former. 

 Phyllodoce Viridis. 



A beautiful worm, lives well in captivity. Not verj' uncommon. 

 Syllis Armaeillis. 

 Not common. 



Ophelia ? 



Not common. 

 Spirorbis Lucida. 



Parasitic ujion '■ Sertularia Abietina." 

 Spirorbis Nautiloides. 



Parasitic upon " Fucus." 

 Spirorbis Kugosa. 



Variously parasitic. — Mr. Marratt. 

 PONTOBDELLA MuRICATA. 



A suctorial Annelide, attached to Rays and other large fishes. 

 H.EMOPIS Sanquisoeba. 



Veiy common. 

 Lumbricus Teerestris. 



Veiy common. 

 Nephelis Elegans. 



A fresh water suctorial Annelide. Found in u running stream near Saughall 

 Massie. 



Clepsine ? 



Two or three species taken in the same locality. 

 Planaria Fusca. 



Abundant in ponds and ditches. 

 Plagaria Nigra. 



Abundant in ponds and ditches. 



A large, extremely thin, transparent, broad, marine phiuaroid was taken at 

 Hilbre Island. It lived about two months afterwards in sea water ; after 

 having been three weeks in captivity, n slight notch formed in the thin edge 

 of one side which gradually extended across the middle of the animal, and 

 in about a week, the head and tail ends had quite separated from each 

 other; tlie vitality and activity of each portion remaining as before, and 

 continuing for a month afterwards ; the head division lived longer than the 

 other, but both gradually lost substance, the active movements of the 

 romnants b(,'ing persisU^nt as long as could bo observed. 

 .\ mafine suctorial species, found between tlie bnincliial leatleLs of '-Pliolas 

 Crisputa." 



