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The diversity of color in this species is very great: of 
lected together, some will be found of a sada te. ie tains ae 
some brownish, and others blackish green, or all these shades a 
@ la piscatorum connects the naked with the sed 
Annelida, A viscid secretion exudes from the anterior half of the mecca 
to which the sand adheres, and hence, when the worm is dug up, this 
ly to the branchie. 
A few of the anterior rings of the Arenicola progressively diminish in 
size, and each admits of being completely folded within the ring immedi- 
ately behind it. Hence, when they are fully retracted, the anterior ex- 
tremity of the animal appears abruptly truncated ; while it is prolonged 
in the shape of a regular cone when they are projected to an extent just 
short of developing the mouth. This constitutes its boring apparatus, 
i i flat head of th ted 
it is finally rejected in the form of 
sand-coils which betray the retreats of the “lugs” on every sea-b 
r ms a favorite article of food to all sorts of 
marine animals of carnivorous appetite: not the apple of Discord itself 
Stirred up such sanguinary ; 
stoutly fought for by the rival Greeks and Trojans than one of these 
