TUNIC ATA. 15 



MOLGULA CONCOMITANS. 



(Plate V., figs. 1 A, and 2-7.) 



Locality. Winter Quarters, in McMurdo Bay. The single specimen measures : 

 Length 2' 5 cm., breadth 2 cm. 



External Appearance. Body somewhat globular, rather flattened laterally, with a 

 straight anterior and a rounded posterior end. Apertures at the ventral and dorsal 

 edges of the anterior end, both on well-marked siphons, the atrial being the more 

 prominent (Plate V., fig. lA). The surface is not encrusted with sand, but has 

 small tag-like excrescences scattered over it, especially around the siphons. Colour 



Test thin, cartilaginous, translucent ; prolonged into minute processes connected 

 with the vessels of the test, and bearing occasional foraminifera or minute grains of 

 sand, especially about the anterior end. 



Mantle yellow, opaque, and very muscular (fig. 4) the sphincters being 

 especially strong. The mantle adheres closely to the test. 



Branchial Sac with seven folds on the right side and six on the left. There are 

 seven bars on a fold, and one large, with several imperfect smaller bars, in the 

 interspace. Stigmata not much curved, irregularly placed, varying considerably in 

 length (see fig. 5). 



Dorsal Lamina a short plain membrane. 



Tentacles, eight very large and much branched, with some much smaller ones 

 placed irregularly between. 



Dorsal Tubercle large and simple, horseshoe-shaped, with the horns turned 

 inwards (fig. 6). 



Alimentary Canal bulky, intestine forming a narrow dark-coloured loop. 



Gonads large and yellow, a single sausage-like mass on each side. 



The single specimen of this species belongs to the group of Molgulids with a nearly 

 naked test, not covered with adhering sand and gravel. In this respect it resembles 

 M. citrlna, M. nudu, M. ampulloides, and M. heller i from the Northern hemisphere, 

 and il/. in<i,viina and M. pedunculata from Southern seas ; but it differs from all of 

 these in details of anatomy. It comes, perhaps, nearest to M. nut.riinit (described by 

 Professor Sluiter from the ' Charcot ' collection) ; and, in fact, it closely resembles that 

 Antarctic species in external appearance and in several other respects. It differs, 

 however, notably in the mantle. Professor Sluiter describes M. iini.i'iinii as having 

 the mantle feebly developed, with a feeble musculature ; whereas our specimen has an 

 extraordinarily strong and opaque mantle, with conspicuous yellow muscles (fig. 4), 

 like those of a Microcosmus. The atrial siphon is the longer and narrower, the branchial 

 short and wide. The large tentacles are extraordinarily bushy. 



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The branchial sac, although agreeing in some respects, such as the number of bars 



