454 COROPHIID.E. 



attached to submarine objects and to each other. The 

 animals are very active, protruding and retracting the 

 anterior portion of their bodies, while their antennae 

 are in continual motion, lashing about in search of some 

 object which might serve for food. It is very amusing 

 to watch a colony of these animals, with their comical 

 gestures in their disputes with each other, and their 

 awkward celerity in regaining their respective tubes 

 after having left them on temporary excursions. I have 

 in no instance met with an individual transporting a 

 free tube, as is said by Mr. Say to be the case with 

 C. tubularis." 



