. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . iopatra D. cuprea. This is one of the largest and most beautiful is found from Cape Cod to South Carolina at low-water mark, in sandymud-flats, living in long tubes which project above the surface two orthree inches and are hung with seaweeds and bits of foreign is twelve inches or more in length and one half of an inch inbreadth. In color it is reddish-brown, specked with gray, and has abrilliant whitish or opal-like iridescence. The appendages are
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . iopatra D. cuprea. This is one of the largest and most beautiful is found from Cape Cod to South Carolina at low-water mark, in sandymud-flats, living in long tubes which project above the surface two orthree inches and are hung with seaweeds and bits of foreign is twelve inches or more in length and one half of an inch inbreadth. In color it is reddish-brown, specked with gray, and has abrilliant whitish or opal-like iridescence. The appendages are yellowish-brown, specked with green. The body is flattened. From the fifth seg-ment long, dull to bright red, much-branched gills, resembling plumes, WORMS 179 extend nearly to the end of the worm. On the ventral side of the para-podia are whitish tubercles with a dark spot in the middle. Thesepapillte secrete the long, broad tube in which the worm lives. The wormis difficult to capture, for when pursued it retreats quickly into its tube,which is so large that it can easily turn around within it. (Plate XLVIII.). Diopatra cuprea. Head and anterior part of body, showing part of the branchite; side view. GENUS Arabella A. opalina. Body cylindrical, twelve to eighteen inches long, onequarter of an inch wide in the middle, and tapers to the ends, which arecomparatively small; lateral appendages short; color bronze, with bril-liant, opal-like iridescence; head small, conical, but blunt and withouttentacles ; four eyes in transverse row at the base of the head ; segmentswell marked ; coils into spirals when outside of its burrow. Found incompact sandy mud at low-water mark on the New England coast. GENUS Lumbriconercis L. tenuis. Twelve inches or more long, and slender, like a fine cord ;bright red and somewhat iridescent; vei-y fragile. Abundant in sandymud on the northern New England coast, and found from New Jei-M -orthward. FAMILY GLYCERIDJE These worms are lon^ and smooth, with
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