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difficulty of ascertaining this point with any degree of accuracy. 

 The very existence of the fascicles is not always possible to be 

 ascertained, and we must acknowledge that we have seen them 

 only on the anterior half of the body. They issue from the mid- 

 dle of the segment, and not from the joints. 



6. L. LINEATUS. 



6. L. " albus lined longitmUnaU rubra." 



L. lineatus. Muller, Verm. I. ii. 29. 



Hub. Sea shore, under stones in muddy places. 



Dcsc. A slender worm, quite smooth, annular, filiform, marked 

 longitudinally with a zig-zag line of a fine red colour. Under the 

 magnifier this is seen to be produced by a blood-vessel wliich runs, 

 one on each side, nearly the length of the body. Length from one 

 to two inches. 



Though the above descriptions relate to minute species, and of 

 eimple structure, they are not perhaps on that account the less 

 worthy of being recorded. They form a large addition to the 

 genus, and yet probably other natives remain to be discovered, 

 for observation inclines me to believe that one or more distinct 

 species have been hastily considered as varieties of the common 

 earth-worm. 



Ord. Antennkes. Lamarck. 

 Fatn. Aphrodites. Id. 

 Gen. Palmyra ? Savigny. 



Palm, ocellata. 



Desc. Boilj/ linear, four lines long, scarcely one in breadth, 

 truncate before, a little narrower bt'hind, compressed, yintcnnce 

 five, conical, the external twice as long as the three intermediate. 

 Proboscis short, retractile, surrounded at the apex with a row of 

 teeth. No maxilla'; nor were the et/es perceptible. Dorsum 

 light-coloured, unspotted, without scales. Sides dusky, with a 

 row of circular liglit-colouied spots down each. IMost of these 



