a new Marine AnhnaL n^Q> 



the whole is in motion, produces a pleafing'efFecl:, and is moft 

 ftriking when the fun is very bright. The membranes, how- 

 ever, at fome particular times appear to be of the feme colour. 



While the membranes are in motion, a httle mucus is ofteiii 

 feparated from the tentacula at the point of the conie. Upon 

 the leaft motion being given to the water, the cones are imme- 

 diately, and very fuddenly, drawn in. / 



This apparatus for catching food is the moft dehcate and 

 complicated that I have feen ; but I (hall not trouble you with 

 any conjectures upon what that food may be, as I have not 

 attained fufficlent knowledge of the animal to fpeak with the 

 fm.alleil certainty, 



I have endeavoured to defcrlbe the external, appearances as I 

 ilnv them ; and have annexed two drawings of the animal 

 iii its two different flates, one In fearch of food, and one while 

 lying at reil: ; thefe are a little magnified, to fhow the parts 

 more diflinclly. 



p I fhali not fay any thing of the internal parts, or their ufeSj- 

 as the animal is in your pofleffion, whoare fo much better able 

 to explain its internal oeconomy.. 



r am, &c. 



EVERARD HOiME,. 



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