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98 ON SEVERAL NEW SPECIES 



white globules, attached and sustained by a meih 

 brane. 



Sandy-Bay, 1816. 



*** Having long arms, furnished with nails, with 

 or without suckers. 



genus 3d. *ONYKIA. 



O. *Carriboea. — Arms eight, unequal; tentacula 

 two, elongated, and armed near their extremity with 

 suckers, and with corneous hooks, concealed, each 

 in a membranous sac; fin truncated. 



Inhabits, amongst fuci, in the Gulf of Mexico, and 

 in the Gulf Stream. 



Head rounded, short, crowned by eight arms and 

 two tentacula; eyes large, lateral, and but little pro- 

 minent, pupils black, iris blue; body enclosed in a 

 sack, cylindric anteriorly, conic posteriorly, and 

 terminated at this extremity by a sub -triangular fin, 

 of which the inferior angle is truncated and rounded; 

 the space between the origins of the wing which 

 forms this fin is % lines long; their extent from one 

 angle to the other, is 8 lines, their length is 6 lines: 

 the diameter of the sack anteriorly 6 lines. 



The eight arms are, in all their length, each fur- 

 nished with two series of suckers; the two superior 

 arms are the shortest, being only 10 lines in length; 

 the six others are 9 lines long; the tentaculae are one 

 inch and an half long, and are armed at their ex- 

 tremity with two series of incurved hooks, which al- 

 ternate with suckers at their bases; the series of suck- 



