Life Beneath the Waves. 37 



and fainter as their life ebbs away, and 

 fade entirely after death. 



Besides the Annelids just described, 

 numerous specimens of those which do not 

 inhabit tubes have been captured in our 

 dredging net; the colouring of these 

 creatures is also extremely brilliant and 

 varied, and their movements are both 

 active and graceful, and very pretty do 

 they look as they dart amongst the stones 

 and seaweed of an aquarium. The one I 

 have drawn was scarlet, with white marks 

 on its body and a white line on its back, 

 reaching from its head to its tail. The 

 sketch is the same size as was the worm 

 itself; and I may as well observe that all 

 the illustrations of marine creatures in this 

 little book, are of the same dimensions as 

 the originals, unless mention be made to 

 the contrary, and that, with one or two 



