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ZOOLOGY. 



feet are jointed, thus anticipating the jointed appendages of 

 the Crustacea and Insects. 



The Annelides are divided into two suborders. The first 

 suborder, Oligochmta, comprises Lumbricus, Nais, etc., while 

 the second suborder, Chmtopoda, embraces Syllis, Autolytus, 

 Nereis, Polydora, Aphrodite., and Polynoe, which are free- 

 swimming, while the tubicolons worms which respire by spe- 



FiG. J53. 



Fig. 152. — Cisienides Gouldii, and if.s tube. — After ■Verrill. 

 Fig. 153 — Euchone elegans, enlarged.— After Verrill. 



cial branchiae, or gills, on tlie head, live in tubes of sand or 

 in limestone shells. Those which live in sand or mud-tubes 

 are Girratulus (Fig. 154:), Glymene and Clymenella (Fig. 150), 

 which has no branchiae, AmpMlrile (Fig. 151), Terebrella, 

 Cistenides (Fig. 162), Sabella, s.nd Euchone (Fig. 153), 

 while Protula, FUograna,: Serpula, and Spirorbis secrete 

 more or less coiled limestone tubes. The large solid shells 

 of the Serpulge assist materially in building up coral reefs. 



