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WORMS. MOLLUSC A. 27. Amphitritc. 



27. AMPHITRITE. Body projeding from 

 a tube and annulate: peduncles or feet 

 fmall, numerous ; feelers 2, approximate, 

 feathered : eyes 0. 



Reniformis. Body rounded : feelers fimple. 



Mull. Wurm. p. 194. tab. 1 6. ./?£"• I — 3. 



Mull. Zool. Dan. "$. p, 13. tab 89. 7^. I, 2. 



Inhabits the Teas about Iceland ; about 3 inches long. 



Body a moll beautiful red: head defended by 2 femicircular 

 arches : plumes 14, alternately red and white: annulatians of 

 the body 80 — 90, with each a minute tubercle each fide: tail 

 poinded and not jointed : tube red, tough, coriaceous, fimple, \ 

 4 inches long. 



Penicillus. Scutel prickly ; probofcis clavate. 



Inhabits the fands about Naples; above 1 inches long. 

 Body with a black line down the middle and extending its 

 whole length : feelers with numerous fibres fpotted with red 

 and yellow; probofcis as long as the plumes of the feelers: 

 Peduncle white tubular, the club red ftriate: tube white fmooth 

 firm and forncthing fixed. 



Ventlla- Fibres of the feelers ciliate on the inner margin: pro- 

 brum. bofcis o. 



Natur. Mifcellany. ix. tab. 324. 

 Ellis' Corallines, p. 92. tab. 34. 

 2. Bailer op. fubfie. 2. p. 178. tab. 9. fig, \ t 



Inhabits the Mediterranean', about 3 inches long. 

 Body pale red, with 150 peduncles each fide: tube clay-colour, 

 tapering towards the bafe, fixed with a few fcattered fibrils 

 upon its furface, and rather coriaceous. 



Auricoma. With % cirri each fide: the fore-part with 2 rigid gold 

 plumes. 



Mull. Zool. Dan. 1. p. 2 J. tab. 26. fig. I — 6. 



Pall. Mi) cell Zool. \. p.lj. tab', y.fig. I — 1 3. 



Martin. Conchyl. 69 — 72. tab. 4. fig. 26, 27. 



Martin. Canch. I. tab. 4. fig. 26. 



Klein tubal, mar. p. 21. tab. i.fig. 5. 



Klein echinod. p. 62. tab. ^.fig. 163. 



Inhabits the Atlantic % Indian and South Seas. 



'lube brown, diaphanous, fragile, one end wedge -iliaped and 

 narrow, and imoothed within : head branched, white and 

 armed on the fore-part with 16 hooks: trunk invcrfely conic, 

 fteel-blue, very fmooth, with 14 tufts of gold brittle:, each 

 fide at the margin, 3 or 4 in each: tail compofed of 3 oval 

 minute hard laminrc, 



Crifiata. 



