Class VI. AMPHITRITE. 



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GENUS XVIII. AMPHITRITE. 



* Body issuing from a tube, annulated. 



Feet small, numerous. 



Tentacula two, close together, feathered. 



Mont. mLin. Tr. ix. lOQ. tah. 8. 1. Infundi- 



BULUM. 



* Amph. Body long, tapering, extendible from 

 three or four inches to eight or ten; of an 

 orange color, divided by whitish ringlets into 

 about an hundred and fifty or sixty joints ; 

 feelers two, each composed of about thirty- 

 seven purple-colored rays, connected nearly to 

 the ends by a transparent web, in which last 

 particular it differs from every other known 

 species ; these feelers are semicircular when 

 spread, uniting into a nearly regular circle ; its 

 tube is elastic, of a greenish color. 



Found near Kingsbridge, Devonshire, at the 

 lowest ebb of spring-tides. 



Mont, in Lin. Tr. vii. 80. tah. 7. f. 10. g VoLUTA- 



CORNIS. 



* Amph. with a scutellum of ten smooth yel- Convoluted. 

 lowish joints, and a pencil of bristly tubercles 



