84 WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 2o. Terebella. 



Body blueifh, tapering behind : ^a*/ fupported by a long ic:rsc- 

 tile neck ifl'uing out between the branched feelers ; ;//car/"L 

 round, armed with c'ux'xi feet frnall approximate, placed neaij 

 the head. 



♦ Concbi- Body whitifh, with numerous filiform cirri round the 

 "Z a ' mouth, the upper-ones very long, branchise deep red. 



Pall. Mi/cell. ZuGt. p. 13!. tab i.fig. 17—22. 

 Pennant Brittjh Zoology, p. 47. tab, 92 Jig. 163. 

 Inhabits the Britijb Coafis, within the Sabeila tubiformis: about 

 5 inches long, pellucid, and tapering towards the lower eiid : 

 body above red ; bead arnud with 4 {baits bgneath: tube taper! 

 ftraight, compofed of minute particles of fahd, about the hze J 

 of a goofe quill and nearly halt a foot long. 



Complana- p dy depreffed, with 4 cirri round the mouth, and a double] 

 f 1 row or lateral pencilled protuberances each fide. 



Sbip-wcrm. 

 Brownfain&ica. p. 395. tab. 39. fig, I. 

 Pallas Mi/cell- Zed. p. 109.' tab.- 8. fig. 19—26. 

 Inhabits Seas round the Weft Indian ljlands % and is extreme!| 

 deftruelive to veffels lyirg at anchor : it cuts with great fa-] 

 cility through the ftoutelr. plank, and burrows into the fubftance, 

 iqcruftating the fises of the hole with a fnioqih teltacei-us 

 toat : with equal eafq and Lxpedition it delhoys piles and the 

 timber of wharfs. 

 Body with about 130 fegrpents : back with 3n obtufe longi-J 

 tudiiul flefhy fort of creft, 



Caruncula* g jy depreffed quadrangular, with 4 row? of pencilled fafcJ 

 cicles, thofe 911 the belly without ci rri. 



Nereis gigantca. Sy/?. ;\~at. xii. 2. p. 1086. a-, 10. 



Pall. Mi/cell . tool p. 102. tab. S.fig. 12, 13. 



Seba- Mufi 2. p 31. tab. $\.fig. 7. 



Inhabits the American snd Indian' feas ? and like the laic is ycrv 

 deilruelive to wharfs and fhippir;g : 9—14 inches long. 



Segments of the bedy abput 90 : lateral pencils yellow, leated on 

 a tranfvcrle papilla, the ventral ones without cirri ; behind 

 the cirri on the br,ck is an oval depreffed caruncle; Ltar.dia, 

 or gills very much branched. 



Rc/hata. Body nearly quadrangular, with 4 rows, of pencilled tufts: 



palate elongated. 

 Sha-JJ. Natur. A) 7/ cell. IX* tab. 339. 

 Pall. Mi/all. Zsot. p. 106. tab. 8. fig. 14-18. 

 Inhabits the Indian Sea ; 8 inches to a foot lqng. 

 Body livid brown: tufts pn the back deeper, tiiofe on the fides 



yellowifli, all of* them furnifhed with a einu: ; Ija/.ciia \ery 



large. 



