m WORMS. MOLLUSCA, 48. Lucerrraria, 



Seba Muf. 3. tab. 1. fig. 1 — 4. /, 3./; 5, 6. 



O/^r M//", 44. tab. 26. Jig. 2. 



Inhabits the Ocean ; from 9 inches to 2 feet long. 



Body reddifh-brown, with 2 longer arms or tentacula : eyes fine 

 biue: the cartilaginous plate or bone in the back is long knce- 

 ftaped and transparent; and is placed as a' ('pedes of Pennatula 

 by Seba Muf 3. tab. 16 Jig. 9. 



* Septula* g oc jy ^^ 2 roimt j e( { wings or proceTes behind. 

 Brit. Z00L tab. 29. jig. 46. Barbnt. tab. $.fg* 5. 

 Johnjl. aquat. tab. i. fig. 8. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean and European Seas: Small. - 

 ^ff<3V mort, rounded behind, with a round membrane or fin at 

 the lower extremity : longer arms 2. 



lamcata. Body entirely inclofed in a black pellucid membrane/ with 

 2 Semicircular wings or proceffes behind. 

 Inhabits the Pacific, Molin Chili, p. 174. 

 Bsdy large, fometimes weighing 150 pounds, and convertible 

 into a very pleafant and palatable food. 



48. LUCERNARIA. Body gelatinous, wrink- 

 led, branched: mouth placed beneath. 



Qjiadntor- jj 0( jy ] on ~ rolled, with 4 forked arms tentaculate at the 

 tip. 

 Mull. Zool. Dan. I. p. 147. n. 72. tab. 39»y%* I— 6. 

 Leske Narurg. \.p. 508. tab. 10. Jig. c. 

 Inhabits Northern Seas, on Fuci : feeds on polypi. 

 Body without head or eyes brown, pellucid, quadrangular, each 

 angle running into an arm the branchies of which are termi- 

 nated by a fafciculus of 30— -40 tentacular tail flexuoua in 

 the middle and difpofed in numerous plaits or folds, thickened' 

 at the bafe and tapering gradually, obtufe at the tip, and 

 extenfile like the tentacular mouth white with cinereous flrias 

 and 4-tcothed. 



P^ngiti. JBody long papillous, with numerous globiferdus arms de- 

 flected into an hsemifpfrere: fixed at the bafe by a byflus 

 or mafs of filaments. 



O. Fabr.fn.grcenl.p 343. «. 233. 



Inhabits deeps of the Greenland Seas, and ftldorh changes its- 

 abode. 



Body varying in fhape, about | an inch long, reddifh with whi- 

 ter globules and papillae ; neck erect thick exfertile arid befet 



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