92 BRITISH TUNIGATA. 



are, however, similar in character to the dendritic 

 tufts of the preceding species (C. morns') ; but the 

 parts are much coarser, and the branches shorter. 

 Two peculiar hair-like processes extend some distance 

 adherent to the intestine ; these open into the stomach, 

 and would seem to be part of the hepatic organ. The 

 intestine is as wide as the stomach, but the rectal 

 portion is a little contracted towards the anus, the 

 margin of which is smooth. 



The reproductive organs (PI. XXXIII, fig. 7) are 

 composed of two nodulose belts, the right-hand one 

 lying within the intestinal loop, the left along by the 

 side of the endostyle. The nodules are large and 

 angular, and vary much both in form and size ; they 

 are strung together on a widish band, within which 

 run the excretory canals. The latter are continued 

 a little in advance of the ventral extremity of the 

 nodulose belt as a compound tube which terminates at 

 the sides of the anus in two distinct outlets. There 

 are, therefore, four reproductive outlets, two on each 

 side of the intestine. 



Some little difference will be found between the 

 description and figure of Cynthia tessettata here given 

 and those of Professor E. Forbes. Our specimens 

 are somewhat intermediate in character between his 

 C. tessellata and C. liniacina, but agree more nearly 

 with the former, to which we have referred them. 



7. Cynthia limacina Forbes. 



Cynthia limacina FOEBES in Brit. Moll. I [1848], p. 39, pi. 

 D, f. 4 ; [CARDS in Proc. Ashmol. Soc. II (1851), p. 267 ; 

 ANSTED & LATHAM Channel Isl. (1862), p. 219]. 



Body much depressed, expanded, doridiform. Test 

 coriaceous, orange with dark brown reticulated mark- 

 ings, enclosing numerous small, depressed warts of 

 various sizes ; orifices quadrangular, papillose, almost 

 sessile, brown. 



Length three-quarters of an inch. 



