270 A FEW SEA-WORMS. 
packing him end-foremost down into the gullet, where he 
sinks, inch by inch, till the swelling which marks his place 
is lost among the coils, and he is. probably macerated tos 
pulp long before he has reached the opposite extremity of 
his cave of doom. Once safe down, the black murderer 
slowly contracts again into a knotted heap, and lies, like 4 
boa with a stag inside him, motionless and blest.” 
But we will leave these lesser lights among creeping 
things and introduce to the reader a singular and beautiful 
Fig 1. creature (Fig. 1), which we first di- 
covered just below low-water mark o 
the coast of Maine, but which has beet 
found by some members of the Essi 
Institute on the piles of Beverly 
bridge, a rich hunting-ground for me 
rine zodlogists. It is about an inch 
and a half long, rather stout in its pi 
portions, and of a delicate pale-grei | 
mottled with a livid tint, and with — 
regularly scattered blackish dots and l 
> patches. When at rest, one might be 
readily excused if on a casual glance he should mistake the | 
tail for the head, but when it glides slowly forwards, it Pd 
trudes a soft, somewhat irregularly conical head, pe 
capable of great extension, as at one moment it looks z 
nothing at all, and in less than another like a veritable ee 
Its eyes are little dark specs arranged in two A shaped ue 
A little behind the eyes are given off a great profusion 
long hair-like feelers, which curl around, and, when pi ie 
almost completely envelope its whole body. When it a l 
the long pale feelers, centred with a line of delicate red, it 
along after it, and perhaps aid the worm in its very 
gliding motion. a 
Another worm, quite interesting in its habits, 1$ er l 
torrhæa, or Blood-drop. We found it in company ¥ 
preceding worm just below low-water mark, 


