jig WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 41. Holothuria; 



Dbnudata. Oblong, with interrupted lateral lines, and} without crel 



or tail. 



Inhabits American Ocean. Bron.un Jamaic. p. 384. 



Thefc 3 lail a-re of art uncertain Genus: the body oblong, round ' 



ed, ilowly tapering to both ends, 3 — 4 inches long and abou 



1 m diameter j traniparent, of a firm gelatinous confidence 



and hollow ; opening by a fmall triangular aperture next the 



ereir,, and a narrow round one at the other extremity: they 



have a fpirai -milky line down the back, under this another 



larger opake one, and on each fide below thefe another fmaller 



purple one. They are fomctimes found fingle, and often 



ilicking lengthways together. 



■* ttntaflet. With 10 ramified tentacular body with ^ rows of papilla-. 

 Brit* Zed. iv. tab. z6, fig. 4.1. Barbxt, tab. 6. fig. 6. 

 Pennant Phil. Tranf. I 76 1, /. 7 .5. tab. I, fig. 3, A, B. 

 Mull. Zed Dan. 1, /;. I 10, tab. 31, iii. tab. 108, fig, l — 4. 

 I'andell ' di/f. p.%~J. tab, 2, fig. 1 2. 

 Planch. Conch, niin. not. tai>. 6, fig. D, £, F. 

 Journ. Phyf. Oct. 1778, p zS/, tab. u, fig. 1 — 6. 

 inhabits European leas: about 6 inches long. 

 Body greenifh-brown : tcntucula elegancy ramified, of a yellow 



and fiivcr colour : .papilLc with fiiiall retractile filaments iflu* 



ing from them. 



Papiilofu; With 10 frondo'fc tentacular body ovate and covered every 

 where with papilla. 1 . 

 Mull. Zool. Dan. 3, /•. 47, tab, lo3, fig. 5. 

 Inhabits bays of the Kortb b'sas. 



tfoalittitzd- With 96 filamentous tcntacula. 

 n i. Inhabits the Mediterranean. Spallanz. act. foe. It. 2. 



fh'apus. Mouth with flcdiy papilla;.* body with annular ftriav and 

 longitudinal ones on the gland. 



Mull. Zool. Dan. 3: p. 27, tab. 66, fig. I. 



Abildg. Naturfi. 9. p. 133. tab. 3. fig. I. 



Inhabits the Indian and Mediterranean feas ; 6 inches long, 



One half of the body cylindrical with numerous annular ftrice, 

 and terminated by the mouth furrounded by 3 wrinkled ftria? 

 and protruding an oblong fafciculus ormafs of tentacula : the 

 other half obovate, gland-ihaped, with 24 longitudinal parallel 

 elevated diitant rough ftrix, the aperture concave furrounded 

 by an excavated annular itm, and furn-idied with numerous 

 recurved fp'mcs within, the exterior. of which are larger. 



Shiiamata. 



