WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 51. Aflerias*. 133 



C, Radiate. 



v f t tl. Rough, with reticulate granulations : rays round. 



Mull. ZwL Dan. 2, tab. 67. 



Seba Muf. 3* p* 13. tab. J- fig* $. 



Inhabits the Belgic and Norway Seas ; a very elegant fpecles. 



Body above rich rofe-colour, fometimes inclining to orange,, 

 with blackifli dots between the granulations; beneath whitifli 

 with dilated grooves ; a quadruple row of tentacula, and 5 

 rows divergent pinnules: rays white at the very tip. 



fertvfa. Rough, rays round with a narrow gibbous bafe ? 

 Inhabits NoptB Spat* Mull. Zool. Dan* prodr. 2839. 



fOpbiura. p ;flc rca] y ; fca | e of the ang ] es f errater 



Act. Nidras. 4./. 54. tab. 2, fig. 15, 10. 



Brit. Zool. iv. tab, ^2, fig, 62. Barbut. tab. 10. fig* 9. 



Sloan Jamaic. 2, tab. 244. fig 8. 9. 



Linck. tab. W.fig. 1 7. Plane, Concb. fab. 4. fig. 4. 



Inhabits the Ocean ; fmall, and moves flowiy. 



Bvdy generally above grey reddifh or violet, rarely white j 



' glabrous, with 5 nys: difk of bicular : rays 4 times as Ion? 



as the body, {lender quadrangular flexuous and covered with 



a Jingle row of fcales. 

 It is iuipe&ed that the mifchievous eiFe&s, which at certain 



times of the year, are produced by eating the common mufleis, 



are occalioned by their having fed upon this fpecies of 



Af-ukata, With glabrous prickles, fhorter than the diameter of the 

 rays. 

 Mull. Zool, Dan. 3 p. 29. tab. 99. fig, 1 — 3. 

 Linck, tab- 26, fig. 42, t. qs.f 71. 

 Inhabits the Ocean Rays c. 



Body varying in colour, orbicular, with minute fcales beneath, 

 6 of which refemble. a Corol. 



uiians, W lt h rough f p i ne s, longer than the diameter of the rays, 

 Linck. tab. Z^fig. 56. /. 37 ./. 65. t, ^o.f'yi. 

 Bar. rar. tab. 1295. fig. 1. Bay but. tab. lO- fig, io„ 

 Inhabits the Indian and tfartb Seas. Rays 5. 



!af Um ^' i{ ^ 5 lender jointed rays, hirfute on the fides ; with a 

 .fmall globular head between the bafe of each ray. 



Inhabits European Seas, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. tab, ^zfg% 63. 



Body pentangular indented fmooth above the aperture; beneath 

 5 -pointed. 



* Pentaphvlla? 



