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bor aud near TSTew Haveu light. The body is three or four inches long 

 when extended, and an inch or more in diameter, and is very changeable 

 in form. The surface is nearly smooth, slightly sulcated lengthwise, 

 and the color is usually pink, or. i)ale flesh-color, translucent. The 

 tentacles are numerous, short, tapering, pale greenish olive, with a dark 

 band around the base, connected with a dark line radiating from the 

 mouth. Toward the upper part of the body the surface is somewhat 

 wrinkled and is capable of attaching grains of saud to itself. When 

 thrown up by the waves it contracts into a globular or i>yriform shape 

 and " somewhat resembles a boiled onion or turnip. '■ 



List of the species ordinarily inliahiting the sandy shores. 



AETICULATA. 



Insects. 



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Muscidii", (larva') 335 



Cicindela generosa (larva) . . 33G 



C. dorsalis 335 



C. hirticollis 335 



O.albohirta 335 



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Geopinus incrassatus 335 



Phytosus littoralis ........ 335 



Bledius cordatus 335 



B. pallipennis 335 



Heterocera undatus ... 335 



Crustacea. 



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Ocypoda areuaria 337 



Gelasimus pugilator 336 



Cancer irroratus 338 



Carcinus grauulatus 312 



Platyonichus ocellatus 338 



Libinia canaliculata 339 



Hipi^a talpoida 338 



Eupagurus pollicaris 313 



E. lougicarpus 339 



Crangon vulgaris 339 



Paliemonetes vulgaris 339 



Annelids, (Chaiopods.) 



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Sthenelais picta 348 



Nephthys jncta 348 



Eteone, sp 349 



iS'er^is virens 341 



X. limbata 341 



€irratulus grandis 348 



Seolecolepis viridis 345 



S. tenuis 345 



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