THE 



ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL. 



August — November, 1827. 



Art. XXXIII. Contributions to the British Fauna. Bt/ 

 George Johnston, 3LD., Fellow of the Roi/al College 

 of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 



[Continued from p. 181.] 



, Class. Annelides. Lamarck. 



Gen. Galba. 



Char. Bodj/ larva-like, annulose, without feet. Mouth ter- 

 minal, inferior, extensile, with a horny mandibular apparatus 

 placed chiefly in the gullet. liranchice^ on the second segment of 

 the body, naked, of two pectinate branches uniting to form a 

 common tube : Suckers on the anal segment, two, (respiratory.?) 



Galb 



A MARINA. 



Desc. Bodj/ larva-like, five lines in length, round, tapered 

 towards the anterior end, abruptly truncate behind; of a soft 

 consistence, and transparent white colour, marked with lines of a 

 deeper shade from the internal Tessels ; it consists of twelve equal 

 segments, the last terminated by two large suckers of a brown 

 colour. Mouth subterminal, inferior, triangular. Arterior to and 

 above the mouth are two 'papillarij eminaiccs, roughened with 



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