38 WORMS. MOLLtJSCM. 29; Nereis; 



Body elongated, above pale ferruginous and grevtfh in the mid*' 

 die, beneath reddifh-white, with a longitudinal furrow down 

 the middle : bead with 4 feelers: /font with 2 cirri: jaws 

 yellow : Jegments about 80. 



Aphrodito- Body deprefTed, not grooved : pedu'ncles citrate a'ncf furnifh- 

 •Jes, ed with papillse. 



O, Fabr. Fn, Irani. p. 296. tt. 27$. 



Inhabits the Greenland Seas with a muddy bottom ; an inch long. 

 Head white: jaws and eyes black : feelers 4: /n?>tf with 2 cirri ; 

 Wy pellucid, the fore-part ochre-yellow, the reit reddifh with 

 2 ferruginous lines on the abdomen ; fomtfttnied it is greenifh, 

 with reddifh lines on the abdomen and tranfverfe ones on the- 

 back. 



Bi Mouth furniJJjed with a probofcis. 



*Cd:rulea. Smooth, deprefTed, bltieifh-grceri, pellucid. 



Inhabits the Ocean, Brit, Zool. p. 47. tab, 25. /%. 32. 



Body fhining,' about 4 inches long, with a groove along the belly; 



*/'7//V?Vr. Body deprefTed : peduncles with lanceolate lamella: or fcales. 



Adams Iran/. Lin. Soc % v. p. 8. 



Mull, Wurm, p, 162. tab, l 1. jig, I — 6". 



Inhabits the North Seas> and was found among young plants of 

 the Fucus pinnatifidus at Tenbeigh ; 2 — 3 inches long. 



Body filiform, grafs-grcen, with about 130 equal fegments : head 

 with 3 feelers each fide : eyes Zj black : probofcis clavate, whieh 

 it protrudes upon being touched : tail with 2 fhort cirri. The 

 younger ones are reddifhy with inow'y head, feelers, cirri an$ 

 fcales. 



Mdcuiata. Body convex : peduncles with hctfrt-maped fcales. 

 Mull, Wurm* p 156. tab. 10. fig, x— 6. 

 Inhabits the North Seas ; i\ — 4 inches long. 

 Body with 200 fegments, green with a darker longitudinal line' 

 each fide, beneath paler and uniform : probofcis clavate, long, 

 white ftriate with red : eyes 2 : head white, front with 2 ihort 

 cirri each fide : feelers 4, white : bridles and fcales of the pe- 

 duncles yellow-green: tail ending in 2 fhort cirri. 



Cfaffa* Body deprefTed : probofcis cylindrical : peduncles red, with 

 branched briftles. 

 Mull.V/ur-n. p. 1 66. tab. 12. fig. 1 — 3. 

 Inhabits the Qcean> on floating fucus ; 4 inches long. 

 Btfy equal: head fmall, with 4 red feelers and 2 fhortcr red 

 frontal cirri : eyes 2, black : probofcis truncate/ cxfertile : tail 

 with 2 rigid unequal briftles, 



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