WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 26. Spio. Si 



Lepiduta. Body oblong, with a red flripe down the back. 

 A. minuta. #r/>. Zool. iv. tab, 24. tig 29. 

 Pall. Mi/cell. Zool. p. 94, tab. "J. fig. 15, a, b. t. S.f. 1,2. . 

 Rafter op. Sub/. I. b. I, /*£. 4. /£< 3. A — C. 

 Inhabits European Seas; not an inch long. 

 Scalej imbricate, very finely punctured, about 14 pais. 



Ctrrofa. Linear tapering; peduncles compreiTed and divided at the 

 tip : fcales velicular 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Pall. Mi/ Zool. tab. t. fig 3 — 6. 

 Body very tender, with it pair of founded fcales: peduncles or 

 feet 35 each lide and rather long, 



Violacea. Oblong, violet; with 15 dorfal fcales each fide. 

 Inhabits Mull. Zool. Dan, prod, 2645. 



Longa. Scales of an uniform colour ; middle of the back naked: legs' 

 with a fimple briftly papilla: lateral cirri o. 

 Inhabits Greenland. Mull, Zool. Dan. prodr, 2646. 



26 SPIO. Body proje&ing from ac tube* 

 jointed and furnrfhed with dorfal fibres : 

 peduncles or feet rough with briitles and 

 placed towards the back : feelers 2, long 

 fimple; eyes 2, oblonfg. 



* Sctitomis. Feelers thin and ftriate. 



O. Fabr. NatUrf. O. p. 259; m I. tab., $. fig. t— -7; 



Bafier op./ubf. 2. p. 134. tab, 12. fig, 2. 



Inhabits the Ocean, principally where there is a clayey bottom - 

 about 3 inches long : the tube is compofed of agglutinated 

 particles of earth, thin, erecly and thrice ai long as the body .*• 

 from this the animal projects it's capillary white feelers in 

 fearch of food, which confifts of fmall marine worms.* body 

 whitifh' with a tinge of green, with a red line down the 

 middle of the back, the hind-part fea green,' the fore-par* 

 black ill] -grey with tranlverfe white (Iriae : /vtf^pale. 



Tilicofnzt. Feelers thick and annulate. 



O. Fabr. Naturf. 6. p. 264. tab; $>fig. 8—12. 

 Inhabits feas about Greenland; an inch long. 

 Body oblong, yellowifti orreddifh with a cinereous line' in the 

 middle and at each end : tube fragile ereft greenifil, from 

 which it projects its feelers in fearch of fifedkiria* and' other 

 fmall marine worms. 



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