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TAB. XII. 
AMPHITRITE Ventilabrum. 
Class 6. Vermes. Order 2. Mollusca. 
Gen. Char. Body projecting from a tube, annu- 
lled- Feet small, numerous. Feelers two, ap- 
proximate, feathered. Eyes none. — Turt. 
Spec. Char. Fibres of the feelers ciliate on the 
inner edge, one feeler with 54 fibres, the other 
only 36. Proboscis none. 
Syn. Amphitrite Ventilabrum. Linn. Syst Nat. ed. 13. 
v. 1 . 3111. Turt. Linn. v. 1 . 82. 
Maltese Tubular Coralline? Ellis-j Coral. 92. t. 34.* 
UR ingenious countryman Mr. Ellis, famous for his ac- 
CUrat e work on Corallines, figured this animal from one 
f°und on the Maltese coast. We arc obliged to Mr. T. W. 
Simmons for this specimen, taken in a net off Dysart, near 
nc a -Keith. The two coats are somewhat lacerated; but as 
We see more of the construction of the animal, it is so far 
an ^vantage. These coats are somewhat cartilaginous, 
*md the outermost is roughest. It has 54 branches to the 
ee ler on one side and 36 to that on the other. 
Ellis has mad* the case of one coat only, whereas it has two in our 
'pecunen. 
