alcine2 (als in)

[ 4 Alcippe lampas. no 1, female, with males seen as dark specks segmented body, on either side of upper part of the sac; 2, two eyes, extenfemale, in section; 3, male; 4, burrow of the animal in a shell; H, horny disk of at sile mouth, and tachment. In the femalec, ovary; h, the sexes dis first pair of cirri; 4, 1, n, three thoracic segments without cirri; next are short seg tinct. It is the type ments bearing three abdominal terminal cirri. In the male- a , antennary appendages; b , seminal vesicle; d , testis; m , penis; 4, orifice of sac; e, eye. ish coast, burrowing in shells of (whelks). and only member of a family Alcippida. A species, A. lampas, is found on the Brit Fusus and Buccinum 2. A genus of birds, of uncertain position, cla ed by G. R. Gray (1869) as one of the Ægithinidæ. It was founded by E. Blyth in 1844, and contains 12 species, inhabiting India, China, the Malay peninsula, and Borneo. A. cinerea is the type.