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The animal is a Terehella, with the probofcis a little 

 fpreading, and fringed round the margin with briRles: 

 the mouth befet with four long aculei, and intermediate 

 ftiort ones: behind the ciliated margin of the probofcis 

 is a fcalloped rufi ; and, on the back of the head, are nu- 

 merous capillary tentacula, of a red colour, like the 

 body, thefe are curled up when the animal is dead. 



Difcharges a beautiful purple dye. 



We have followed Do61or Pulteney in the prefixed 

 references, though with doubt, as the tube is far from 

 being fragile, and the animal appears to be deftitute of 

 the fpines on the back ; fuch at lead never occurred to us, 

 although the fafciculi and branchiae are always con- 

 fpicuous. 



7. 

 CiRRATA. Terebella cirrata. Gmel. Syji. ^.5112. — TtJrl. Lin. iv. p.83. 



S. with a thick, fragile tube, a little tapering, com- 

 pofed of fand, mixed with clay, (lightly agglutinated to- 

 gether; foft whenmoift, and crumbly when dry. Length 

 lix or feven inches; diameter half an inch, or more; of 

 the aperture a quarter. 



This is gregarious, but not attached, (landing upright 

 in a muddy bottom, between high and low water-mark, 

 with about an inch above the furface : is fo extremely 

 foft, that it is difificult to obtain more than two or three 

 inches of the tube perfect. 



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