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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF GONIODORIS. 

 BY ANDREW GARRETT. 

 GoNiODOKis Trtoni, Garr., pi. 4. 



Animal oblong, smooth, soft, convex on the dorsal region, and 

 the bod^' deep. The mantle is narrow, rounded and somewhat di- 

 lated in front, acutely rounded posteriorly, margins thin and 

 slightly gashed. The dorsal tentacles, which issue from simple 

 cavities, are rather distant from each other, oblong, sub-trigonal 

 in shape, pointed and very finely lamellated. The branchial star 

 is rather large, wider than the mantle, and is composed of twent}'- 

 four plumes wliicli are more or less forked. Anal tube prominent. 

 Labial appendages small and conical. The large foot is elongate, 

 and projects far behind the mantle. 



Color creamy-white, the mantle and foot margined with violet, 

 and, together with the sides of the body, decorated with a few small, 

 scattered, roundish, deep black ocellii, encircled with opaque white 

 rings which are shaded off with light umber. The dorsal tentacles 

 are light umber, gradually' passing into violet above, and the la- 

 mellae, together with an anterior and posterior vertical line, white. 

 The branchial plumes are pale tawny flesh, edged with light umber, 

 and the tips violet. 



Length 71 mill. 



Hah. Society Isles. (]\rus. Godeffroy, namburg.") 



