WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 24-26. 131 



Sowerby Brit. Mifcell. tab. 67. 



Body hardly 2 inches long, inclofed in a brown cafe, yellowish 

 towards the head : fetters of about 12 fibres each. 



100. A. campanulata. Feelers pale with black spots: 

 body striped red and yellow, with white peduncles : 

 proboscis bell-shaped at the end. 



In the Serpula triquetra. Sowerby Miscell. t. 31. 



Body about an inch long, yellow with red stripes, furnished with 

 about 6 feet each side : feelers with each 10 or 11 fibres : proboscis 

 white, ending in a bell-shaped tube which projects a bifid tongue. 



24. SPIO. 



101. Sp. seticomis. With thin capillary striate feelers. 



The Ocean. Baster op. subsc. 2. p. 134. tab. 12./, 2.. 



Body about 3 inches long, whitish with a tinge of green, with a 

 red line down the middle of the back, blackish-grey on the fore- 

 part with transverse white striae, sea-green behind : head pale- 



25. NAIS. 



102. N. serpentina. Body serpentine, with red spiral 

 intestines and triple black collar. 



Stagnant Waters. Shaw Miscell. t. 270. 



Body about 9. lines long : peduncles warty, with 3 hooked 

 bristles. 



103- N-. proboscidean With, single lateral bristles, and 

 very long- proboscis. 



Stagnant Waters. Shaw Miscell. t. 379. 



Body- 3 lines long, hyaline, with a blackish flexuous intestine^ 

 each fegment with a single longish bristle each side ; head forked, 

 armed with a mouth and tongue ; vent terminal. 



104. N . digitata.. With single lateral bristles : tail armed 

 with 6 unequal retractile processes. 



Stagnant Waters. Shaw Mifcell. t. 452. 



2to<iy 4 lines long, with, a reddish vein down the middle, furnished 

 beneath with, a double row of minute ciliate, protuberances : eyes o; 

 tail rounded.. 



26. LERNiEA. 



105. L. Cyprinacea, Body obclavate: thorax cylindrical 

 forked : tentacula lunate at top. 



On the Carp and Roach. Barbut t.j.f. 3. 



Body about kalf an inch long, hardly larger than a straw, pale 

 and fomewhat pellucid, thruft out of a kind of sheath, with 3 obtufe 

 tubercles towards the other extremity : mouth with 2 foft fleshy 

 procefses near it, and pn each side another foft lunate procefs. 



106. L. Salmonea* Body obovate : thorax inversely 

 heart-shaped : arms approximate, linear. : 



On the Salmon. Barbut t^j.f, 4., 



Body 6 lines long, foft, pale : head fmall, oblong, rather convex* 

 with horizontal lips, the upper-lip armed with 2 rigid moveable 

 hooks, the lower, shorter and cloven : abdomen obovate, broader 

 than the last: ovaries whiter, cylindrical, granulate within, as 

 large as the whole animal. 



107. L. Spratti. Body oblong, red : head with 2 barbs : 

 neck notched : ovaries linear, green. 



On the Sprat, Sowerby Brit. Miscell. tab. 68. 



Body about 2 inches long, shaped like an oat, obliquely truncatft- 

 behind ; nech long, barbed ; mouth rather large, under the head, 



