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Show 84 DR. w. R U R D ON THE GF.PHYREA. [Feb. 13, looking and shining. It is inflated like a bottle, more swollen anteriorextremity.butwith the inferior extremity elongately acuminate and somewhat granular or warty. The general appearance of the animal, especially with the probo'scis retracted, is that of a capsicum. The proboscis is thick and cylindrical, and at the apex is crowned with numerous short, fleshy-looking cirri, each slightly club-shaped at the free extremity. The surface of the body, when examined with the lens, presents the appearance of very minute circular striae, and numerous, very fine, flat granulations. The posterior extremity becomes suddenly acuminated, and is of considerable length. Hab. Falkland Islands (W. Wright, Esq.). B.M. The P. capsiforme approaches in characters to theSipunc. (QHdema-tosomum) rapa of Quatrefages, a species brought by M. d'Orbigny, but from what quarter of the world the author does not state; neither has the proboscis been seen by M. Quatrefages, and the body is described as " albo setaceum," or like the cocoon of a white moth. 6. PHASCOLOSOMA BOREALE. Phascolosoma boreale, Keferstein, Beitr. z. Anatom. der Sipunc. in I.e. p. 206, 1865. Sipunculus (Phascolosomum) borealis, Quatrefages, /. c. ii. p. 620, 1865. Hab. Godthaab, Greenland, in from 30 to 40 fath. (Holboll). B.M. 7. PHASCOLOSOMA CERSTEDII. Phascolosoma cerstedii, Keferstein, /. c. p. 205, 1865. Sipunculus (Phascolosoma) cerstedii, Quatrefages, /. c. ii. p. 620, 1865. Hab. Godthaab, Greenland (Holboll). B.M. 8. PHASCOLOSOMA OBSCURUM. Sipunculus (Phascolosomum) obscurus, Quatrefages, /. c. ii. p. 616, 1865. Hab. Les cotes de POce'an (Quatrefages). 9. PHASCOLOSOMA VULGARE. Sipunculus vulgaris, Blainville, Diet. Sc. Nat. art. Siponcle, Atlas, pl. 33. f. 3, 3 a, b, 1828. Phascolosomum vulgare, Diesing, Syst. Helm. ii. p. 65, 1851 ; Revis. der Rhyngod. p. 759, 1859. Phascolosoma vulgare, Keferstein, Beitr. in I. c. p. 201, 1865. Sipunculus (Phascolosomum) vulgaris, Quatrefages, /. c. ii. p. 616, 1865. Hab. Dieppe (Blainville). 10. PHASCOLOSOMA PUNCTATISSIMUM. Sipunculus punctatissimus, Gosse, Ann. & Mao-. 0f Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. vol. xii. p. 125, 1853 ; Quatrefages, /. c. ii. p. G17 1865.' |
