The most taxonomically ambitious creature work in the entire collection — a large horizontal sheet covered with approximately twenty individually characterized elongated creatures, each rendered with the specificity of a zoological illustration and arranged across the surface as if laid out for comparative study. This is Sidney's natural history cabinet made visible: the worm and eel forms that populate many other works, here gathered, described, and presented as a scientific survey.
The variety is extraordinary. Each creature has its own surface pattern: one has yellow dots on a dark green ground; another has black and teal banding; a third has pink dotted marks along its length; a fourth has blue circles outlined in teal; a fifth is pale gray with a dotted pattern; a sixth has orange tassel-like appendages at one end. Some are segmented; some are smooth; some terminate in blunt rounded heads with visible eyes; others simply taper to points.
Between and around the elongated forms, smaller secondary elements scatter across the ground: isolated black marks, small eye-circles, brief color accents — the visual detritus of a collection laid out on a white surface. These secondary marks give the composition the character of an actual naturalist's table rather than a purely invented arrangement.
At upper center, a yellow form with dark patterning and its own tasseled appendages is the most flamboyant specimen — the one that would stop a naturalist's eye. At lower center, a squat segmented form in yellow-black suggests a larva or a bee-wasp, introducing a vertical axis into the predominantly horizontal specimen field.
This work is the culmination of the worm-creature vocabulary that runs through dozens of works in the collection. Here Sidney laid them all out and counted them.