Class VI. TEREBELLA. Ill 



GENUS XXVIII. TEREBELLA. 



* Body oblong, creeping, naked, furnished with 



branchicE. at the sides, often inclosed in a 

 tube. 



Mouth at the end, with lips, and a club- 

 shaped j^^ro^o^cw. 



Teeth none. 



Tentacula numerous, capillary, ciliated, sur- 

 rounding the mouth. 



Mont, in Lin. Tr. Ix. 110. tal. 4. fg. 2. 1. TenTA- 



CULATA. 



* Te. with a long slender body, composed of 

 above two hundred annulations, each furnished 

 with two fasciculi of very minute bristles ; no 

 eyes ; from the sides issue very long red capil- 

 lary appendages, like so many worms, writhing 

 in all directions ; mouth beneath ; color, olive 

 green above, dull orange beneath; length eight 

 or nine inches. 



Found in wood in the deserted habitation of 

 a Pholas. 



