THE 
GREAT TUBULARIA. 
Generic Character. 
Stem tubular, simple or branched, fixed by the 
base. 
Animal terminal; the head crested with tenta- 
cula. 
Specific Character, &c. 
TUBULARIA with a simple whitish tube, and 
very numerous tentacula variegated with 
red and white. 
Trans. Lin. Soc. vol. 5. p. 228 . pi. Q. 
Of all the Tubularite yet known the present may 
be considered N as by far the largest and most mag¬ 
nificent in its appearance. It. is a native of the 
seas about the West Indian islands, inhabit ins: the 
cavities of rocks, and possessing, like the reft of the 
genus, the power of withdrawing itself on any ap¬ 
pearance of danger into the hole in which it resides. 
It may be added that it seems in some degree to 
connect the genera of Tubularia and Amphitrite, 
having the annulated body of the one, with the 
peculiar generic characters of the other. It is re¬ 
presented 
