THE 
YELLOW-HAIRED TEREBELLA. 
Generic Character. 
Body oblong, repent, with lateral fafcicles and 
branchiae. 
Tentacula capillary and ciliated. 
Specific Character, Gfc . 
DEPRESSED TEREBELLA, with about 37 
branchiae on each fide, and forked tail. 
The Terebcllas are marine animals, in their general 
appearance refembling thofe of the genus Nereis. 
They are alfo pretty nearly allied to the Aphrodita?. 
Some fpecies inhabit the cavities of rocks, and 
others a kind of flexible or leather-like tubes of 
their own compofition. The fpecies here reprefented 
in its natural fize is one of the largeft of the genus, 
and is a native of the Indian ocean. 
