24 BRITISH TUNICATA. 



[Polyclinum ficus CCTVIER Regne Anim. (1817), II, p. 501 ; 



ed. 2, III (1830), p. 169; and ed. 3 (1836), II, p. 105; 



McMuRTiiiE (Engl. transl.) Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. Ill 



(1834), p. 115; DESHAYES in Cuvier's Regne Anim., 



Moll. (rir. 1845), p. 245.] 

 [Alpidlum ficus FLEMING in Edinb. Encycl. XIV (1821), 



p. 631 ; Philos. Zool. (1822), II, p. 514;' and Moll. Anim. 



(1837), p. 213.] 

 \_Synoicnm fie us BLAINVILLE Man. Malac. et Conch. (1825), 



p. 587; (1827), pi. Ixxxii, ff. 6, 6 a, 6ft ; RANG Hist. nat. 



Moll. (1829), p. 355; MCMDRTRIE (Engl. transl.) Cuvier's 



Anim. Kingd., Atlas, III (1837), pi. xliii ter, ff. 5, 5 a, 56.] 



PSfS^Wi 



: fei^A-:i^% &&SJS 



FIG. 97. Ax>lidium ficus. A colony, natural size. (After Ellis, 



loc. dt.) 



Colony forming a sub-orbicular, or lobed and 

 depressed, fleshy mass, of a dull yellow colour when 

 fresh, changing to a dark olive in spirit. Individuals 

 yellowish. Branchial sac with six or seven rows of 

 areolar stigmata. Post-abdomen rather short and stout. 



Diameter of mass from two to four and a half inches 

 (50-1 14 mm.). 



Hob. [In trawl refuse (Codes). ~\] ] 



ENGLAND. Whitstable, Kent (Ellis ; Aide}' fy Han- 

 cock). [Bream Bay sands and Helford River, Fal- 

 mouth, Cornwall (Cocks) J\ 



First record. Ellis, 1755. 



