WORMS. MOLLUSC A; so- Asterias. &9 



115. M. fusca. Body with 16 brown rays, and a brown 

 circle in the middle ; the circumference edged with 

 alternate oval tubercles and crooked fangs. 



Borl. Cornw. p. 256. t. 25,7. 7. 8. Br. Zool. n. 48. 



Rays pointing from the circumference to the centre : tentacula 4, 

 jagged, a little longer than the body. 



116. M. purpurea. Body with pale purple rays, and a 

 light purple cross in the middle,, between each bar of 

 which is a deep purple horse-shoe-shaped mark. 



Borl. Cornw. p. 257. t. 25. /. 9. 10. Br. Zool. 4. 49. 



Rays diverging from the circumference : tentacula 4, short, thick, 

 not longer than the body. 



117. M. tuberculata. With 15 brown rays meeting at the 

 centre, and small oval tubercles round the margin. 



Bor-l. Cornw. t. i^f. n. 12. Barbut t. g.f. 8: 

 Tentacula 4, plain, much longer than the body. 



118. M.undutata. Margin undulate, with fangs on the 

 projecting parts ; beneath 4 orifices, between which 

 is a stem divided into 8 ragged tentacula. 



Borl. Cornw. t. 25../. 15. Barbut. t. g.f. g. 



119. M. lunulata, Margin tubercled ; beneath 4 conic 

 appendages forming a cross, with several leaf-like 

 serrate-ones surrounding it. 



Borl. Cornw. t. 25. /. 16. 17^. Br. Zool. iv. n. 52. 



Tentacula 8, not exceeding the edges of the body, between each, 

 of which is a femilunar aperture. 



120. M. simplex.. With a plain circumference and 4 aper * 

 tures beneath : tentacula none. 



Borl. Cornw. t. 25.7. 13. 14.. Br. Zool. iv. n. 5$. 



121. M. crutiata. Margin fringed with fine fibres j the 

 disk marked with a white cross, each arm of which 

 has a blackish spot.. 



The Sussex coast. Barbut Worms, t. g.f. \. 



Body like a tranfparent colourlefs jelly, furrounded at the edge 

 with a fringe of fibres. 



122. M. capillata. Margin with 16 indentures; beneath 

 with 16 rays meeting at the centre, where they are 

 surrounded by numerous fibres. 



Kentish coast. Barbut Worms t. g. f. 3. 



Body whitish* femipellucid, convex, fragile, flat beneath with a 

 rough circle j the margin divided into 8 portions, each of which is 

 emarginate. 



3 0. ASTERIAS. Star-fish. 

 A. With 5 stellate rays. 



123. A. rubens. Pale orange, with lanceolate convex 

 rays every where clothed with small spines. 



Br. Zool. t. 30. /. 58. Basterfubs. t. 12. /. 1-6, 



Body 14 inches in diameter, varying in colour, but generally 

 lemon-colour marbled with dark brown, beneath whitish : fpine* 

 white. 



. 124. A. spinosa. Rays lanceolate, of nearly equal thick* 

 ness, beset with numerous spines or tubercles, 



Refembles the last, but the rays are not convex, 

 Moil, Cornw, t, 2$/ 8, Br, Zool, iv. n, 60. 



