Amphion

twin brother to Zethus and son of and Zeus. Exposed on Mount Cytheron, the children were rescued by a shepherd. Amphion the lyre; he attacked Lycus, his putative seized Thebes, and reigned there conjointly his brother. Somewhat inconsistently he is to have built Thebes by the simple proce coaxing the stones into position by the notes of lyre. It was probably another Amphion who Niobe. Amphioxus, The Amphioxus or Lancelet isa worm or fish-like animal about two inches which lives half buried in the sand banks of LOOP FB aN Oe wm. AMPHIOXUS, Mediterranean, round the Channel Islands, It belongs to the phvlun CHORD AT A, and is of interest, owing to the light it throws on the of the vertebrata. It has neither skull, limbs, brain, heart. nor kidney. The po e ion, of a cartilaginous rod (the notochord), (q.v.) to the vertebral column of the shows that it is most nearly allied to this The nervous cord immediately overlies the and is specialised in places to serve as of sight and smell. It has affinities with ASCIDIANS, which it connects with the verted i vision of the chord at a.