THE 



FASCICULATED ASCIDIA. 



Generic Character, 



Body fixed, more or lefs cylindric, vaginant. 

 Apenu?rs two, commonly feated near the top : 

 one lower than the other. 



Specific Character, &c, 



PYRIFORM SUBFERRUGINOUS and SUB- 

 PILOSE ASCIDIA ? with the aperture fur- 

 rounded by ten fafciculated tentacula. 



The elegant marine animal reprefented in the an- 

 nexed plates, feems to be one of thofe fpecies which 

 have not yet been introduced into the Syilema Na- 

 ture of Lirtnaius. It is a native of the Indian and 

 American feas. The individual fpecimen now figured 

 was drawn up by a net in fifhing off the coafts of 

 a fmali ifland at no great diftance from Borneo. 

 Like others of its genus, when difturbed, it contrads 

 the body, as reprefented on the laft plate, and ejeds 

 the contained fluid from the fuperior orifice or mouth. 

 It remains to be obferved, that a highly-elegant 



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