SHORT PSOLINUS. 



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HOLOTHURIADJE. 



PENT ACT JE. 



Genus Psolinus. Forbes. 



Generic Character. — Body irregular, ovate, arcuated, with five rows of distant 

 suckers, those below always bent ; tentacula ten ; dental apparatus short, trun- 

 cate ; no gizzard. 



THE SHORT PSOLINUS. 



Psolinus brevis. Forbes and Goodsir. 



Specific Character. — Body obtuse posteriorly, pinkish white, with minute 

 papillae ; tentacula long, pedicled, digitate at the extremity. 



Hohtliuria brevis, Forbes and Goodsir, Athenaeum, No. 618. 



The genus Psolinus, which I have thought it right to 

 constitute for the reception of the singular little Holothuria 

 which was discovered by Mr. Goodsir and myself in the Shet- 

 land seas, adhering to the stems of Laminaria?, and which 

 I afterwards found in a similar situation in the Kyles of 



