WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 29. Nereis. 89 



Ji/era. Body depreiTed : peduncles with elliptic fcales. 



MulL Zool. Dan. 2 tab. 62. fig. I -3. 



Inhabits bays of Norway. Body filiform white, with oblong 

 fcales on the back 5 beneath a red line dovVn the middle : 

 bead with. 6 feelers : eyes 2 : peduncles conic, curved back, with 

 briftles at the tip, and 6n one fide difpofed in a fan-fhaped 

 manner. 



Body (lightly depreiTed : peduncles furnifhed with very long 

 cirri. 



Mull. Zool. Dan. 2, tab. 62I Jig. 4, C. 



Inhabits the Northern Seas, in oyfter-mells or under ftones. 



Body yellow ifh, with tranfverfe brown itreaks and a longitudinal 

 red line down the back ; fegments abut 40 : head with 4 cir- 

 ri : eyes 4 : cone of the peduncles marked with 4 black dots 3 

 ft»7 ending in 2 cirri. 



Elba. Body convex \ front horned : peduncles bifid. 



Mull. Zool. Dan, 2, tab, 62. fig. 6, 7. 



Inhabits Norway Seas, on a clayey bottom* 



Body white, annulate, and tapering behind: eyesO: probofcis 

 membranaceous, very pellucid, and capable of being inflated 

 to twice the width of the body: peduncles yy each fide and 

 warty. 



tlava* feody deprefTed: peduncles with oblong-oVate fcales. 

 0, Fabr.fn. Grxnl. p. 299. tab. 282. 



Inhabits the North Seas, among the roots of Ulvse ; 27 liaes long. 

 Body with about 140 fegments, yellow : feelers 2, united at the 

 bale : probofcis with 2 (hort cirri ; eyes 2, black : peduncles With 

 black briilles : tail with 2 black cirri. 



Longai Body flightly depreiTed, and furnifhed with conic papilla 



inftead of fcales of the peduncles. 

 O Fabr.fn. Grccnl. p, 300, n. 283. 

 Inhabits the mores of Greenland with a clayey or faridy bottom, 



near the mouths of rivers ; 9 inches long; 

 Body with 190 — 240 fegments j fometimes white, with blackifh 



bfiifres and cirri at the end of the tail ; fometimes reddifh above 



or grey-green ; fometimes greeniih above with darker fides; 



beneath whitifh with a brafiy tinge : peduncles bind. 



Pri/matica. Body triangular: peduncles diflant, with a finglc fetigerbiis 

 papilla cirrate above. 

 O, Fabr.fn.Grcenl.p. 302. >. 2§£, 

 Inhabits the mores of Greenland; about 6 lines long. 

 Body with 25 fegments, ochre-yellow, with 3 grey lines on the 

 back: head with numerous white cirri, neck with \i\ eyes 4: 

 ^//ending in 2 white cirri. 



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