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whitish, soft and rather thin, a little wrinkled towards 

 the apertures, with scattered hairs, and shelly frag- 

 ments adhering partially to the skin. Mantle (PI. 

 XXXIX, fig. 9) transparent and nearly colourless. 

 Tentacular filaments (fig. 72) simple, linear. Branchial 

 sac (PI. XLIII, fig. 4) with four folds on each side. 

 Ovaries (PL XLIII, fig. 5) in parallel cylindrical 

 masses, extending transversely, about four on each 

 side. 



FIG. 74. Tentaciilai- filaments of Styela vestita. Magnified. 



Diameter about half an inch. 

 Hal. Deep water. 



ENGLAND. Craster, Northumb. ; from the fishing- 

 boats (Staitt/er). Dredged on the coasts of North- 

 umberland and Durham in the excursions of the 

 local Dredo-ing Committee of the British Association 



[1862-64]." 



First record. Stanger, 1860. 



Mr. Stanger, who first met with this species, an- 

 nounced its discovery in the ' Transactions of the 

 Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club,' under the above 

 specific name which we had proposed for it. We 

 afterwards thought it might be the same as a species 

 found by Professor Sars on the Norwegian coast, and, 

 in a paper in the ' Annals of Natural History,' we 

 adopted his name of Cynthia glacialis. A more detailed 

 description, however, since published by Professor Sars, 

 shows that his species is quite distinct, and belongs to 



