128 WORMS, INTKSTINA'. 7. 8. 9. 



7. LUMBRTCUS. Earth-worm. 



25. L. terrestris Body red, with 8 rows of prickles. 



Dew-worm. Br. Zool. iv. f. 19. /. 6. Barbitt t. i.f. 8. 

 2. About half the size. Br. Zool. iv. t. ig.f. 6. .V. 



In the foil. Body dull rod, with about 140 rings, each containing 

 4 pair of most minute prickles, convex each side-. when expanded, 

 ilattish when contracted, with a red canal down the whole body : 

 belt wrinkled and porous : mouth placed beneath the probofcis. 



26. L. marinus Red, with 2 rows of bristly tubercles 

 down the back. 



Lug, Lob-worm. Br Zool. iv. t. ig./. 7. Barbui t, \.f. 9. 



Sandy Shores. Body pale red, foft, annulate with larger and 

 fmaller rings, the larger with 2 tufts of short bristles : mouth round. 



27. L. Thalassema. Body striate, dirty-red with shining 

 red spots, beneath grey: mouth surrounded with a 

 funnel -like tube, which is wrinkled within and 

 plaited at the margin. 



Pall. Miscel. Zool. t. u.f. 9 . Sfic. Zoo/, t.i.f. 6. 



On tfee shores of Cornwall. Body glabrous, mucous, thicker "at 

 one end, a little pointed at the other : mouth placed above, with a 

 faffron funnel. 



38. L. oxynrus. Body whitish-livid, very sharp at the 

 hind extremity, obtuse before, with a cylindrical 

 retractile and exsertile proboscis. 



On the Sufsex Coast- Pail. Misc. Zool. t. \ ./. 7. 8. 



Body about an inch and a half long, annulate with very fine striae : 

 fnout truncate, very finely granulate, with a fcarcely visible pore 

 at its bafe. 



8. SIPUNCULUS. Tube-wrm. 



29. S. midus. Body covered with a close skin, smooth, 

 of equal thickness at the lower extremity. 



The Ocean. Br. Zool. iv.f 20. /. 10. Buriut t. Q..J. 3. 



Body dirty-white, about 8 inches long, fomewhat conic, deeply 

 striate longitudinally and tranfverfely, and reticulate : mouth tube- 

 like and projectile, armed with fleshy 2-pointed papillae, beneath 

 which is an oblong tranl'verfe aperture furrounded by a prominent 

 lip. 



30. S. saccattts. Body covered with a loose skin, smooth, 

 globular at the lower extremity. 



Barbut t. a,/". 4, Linn. Trans. 7. p. .7.5. 



Body larger than the lad. inclofed in 'a loofe membranous diaph- 

 anous skin, dilated at the lower, end, and is'no't contlteiedlovyfc&ls 

 the middle. 



31 . S. stromo'us. Body covered with a close skin, warty 

 below the vent* 



Montague Linn. Trans. 7. p. 74. 



Body 3 or 4 inches long, livid, furrounded with short feelers at 

 the mouth: refembles S. nudus, but is shorter, warty fora con- 

 siderable fpace behind the vent, not fo fuddenly decreasing in size 

 above the vent, and tke feelers round the mouth longer, 



9. PLAN ARIA 



32. PI. nigra. Black, depressed, linear, with a semi- 

 pellucid whitish spot above the tail. 



O.n aquatic plants. Linn. Trans.. 2. p. 317. Hirudo. 

 Body deep velvet-black above and bclo\v, circular vrhen at rest, 



