534 

 GEN. XXXVI. 



SABELLA. 



Jnimal various, JMPHITRITE, T ERE BEL- 

 LA, SPIO, mid NEREIS P 



THE animal inhabiting fome of the Linncsan Sahellcs 

 has, by later authors, been confidered as an Amphitrite ; 

 and to this new genus the SabcUa PcniciUus and granu- 

 lata have been removed. 



Before we enter upon the defcriptions of the feveral 

 fpecies of 57Z'c//a indigenous to the Britijh coads, it may 

 not be improper to remark, that in placing them amongft 

 fliells, we have deviated from our own opinion, and have 

 followed the fyllem of Linn.eus, and other later wri- 

 ters, in continuing this genus amongfl the Vermes 

 Tejlacea. 



The tubes in which the animals of this clafs are en- 

 clofed, are all, more or lefs, compofed of extraneous 

 matter a.gglutmatcd together, fuch as fjnd, gravel, and 



broken 



