. I ROPODA 



Bath] doi la [ngolfiana, Bgh, n. sp. 

 latinosum, dorsum subpellucidum. Rhinophoria et tentacula brunnea, brau- 



i aiuauti.ua, podarium e nigro purpureum. 



II ah M -itl.n- ■ 



PI I: PL II, fig. i -2. 



The onl) specimen of this remarkable form was taken on 59 12' Lat N., ^1 08 1 Long. W. (the 



the I».i\is Strait, about West of Cape Farewell) from a depth ..1 [870 fathoms, l>y a 



■in temperature According to the kind communication bj Prof, Juugi 1 en, tin trawl 



tught ti]' a whole cart-load of large, linn blocks of clay, tin- substance of which reminded of 



. ami seemed to contain no organisms, ami also a fluid, yellowish mud, in which w 

 found some Rhizopoda, small Crustacea (Isopoda, Tanaidae, Amphipoda, Ostracoda), and a few 

 "I Yoldia-like small bivalves, of Dentalia, ami <.t a form of Buccinida. Tin- swabs were 

 empty, and accordingly the bottom must certainly have been ] r. Of larger animals the same trawl- 

 ing only brought the common little deep-sea fish Cyclothone microdon, a pair of curious Actinia, and 

 stalked, cupshaped silicious sponge, as well as a characteristic red Planaria swimming edgewise, 

 and furthermore a Nemertine. Moreover was found in the meshes of the trawl an immense number 

 urless lumps of jelly, warty on the surface, and about the size of a hazel-nut. 

 The nature of the mentioned lumps of clay caused this animal to come up in a partly some- 

 what rubbed condition. It gave no sign of life at all, and did not contract when touched. It was 

 immediately put into 70 alcohol, and is said to have neither contracted much therein, nor altered 

 ■nn. 



The animal in its fresh state is stated to have been of an, as it were, somewhat gelatin- 

 ncy, and the somewhat scraped dorsal side quite transparent, so that the intestines might 

 seen through it. With the exception of the almost colourless back the animal was of a dark-brown- 

 viol mr, but much darker on the fo< 



The animal, which is rather well preserved in the alcohol, showed on the back a light green- 

 ish white ground-colour, crossed through by a network with wide meshes of branched and anastomotic 

 blackbrown stripes, in the crossings of which were often seen small black rings with whitish centra 

 rtly from broken-off papillae?), similar very small and small rings were moreover found spread in 

 the meshes. Towards the foot the colour became velvet-black, and of this colour was also the back 

 and the upper side of the foot. The rhinophoria were yellowish, the fori- part of the 

 Mown, the tentacles brownish yellow; the exterior genitalia were yellowish; the "ills were 

 dirty brown, as was also the sole of the foot. The length of the animal was ()-;v"' by a height of 

 breadth of G"*; the foot was <>' " long by a largest breadth of V5 m " 1 ; the footbrim was 

 ■ tbe tail Qg; the fore end of the head was about 2-fv m broad, each tentacle be- 



lub -1 the rhinophore r m high; the diametei of the flat .^ills was 1 — 1 -5 cm 

 .• height of the anal papilla 7 mm ; tli itium projected 6"" n . The colossal folds of the vulva 



■ high, and when spread from each other the) had a breadth of \ ,n by a length from above 



