122 The Commercial Products of the Sea. 



land, is the Palolo viridis, Gray, a small species of sea- 

 worm, a genus of annelides. The Rev. J. B. Starr, of the 

 London Missionary Society, has given the best description 

 of it, as follows : — 



Fig. 2. 



I. Palolo viridis, natural size. 2. Portion of body, slightly magnified. 3. 

 Magnified figure of head. 4. Ditto of posterior extremity. (Gray.) 



" The palolo is the native name for a species of sea- 

 worm which is found in some parts of Samoa (the Navi- 

 gator Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean. They come 

 regularly in the months of October and November, during 

 portions of two days in each month, viz., the day before 



