472 Cuviera. Phantapus. 



very old, and might have been thrown out of some 

 vessel, and been washed on shore. 



Art. VII. Illustrations in British Zoology. By George John- 

 ston, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edin- 

 burgh. 



Cuvie v r^ Pha'ntapus. {Jig. 68.) 



Si/nonymes. i/olothuria Phantapus Lin., Syst.,1089.; Mull. Zool. Dan. Prod., 

 ' 231., no. 2803.; Turt. Gmel., iv. 109.; Lam. Anira. s. Vert., iii. 73.; 

 Cuv. Reg. Anim., iii. 239. Ascidia rustica Turt., Gmel., iv. 93. ; Turt. 

 Brit. Faun., 132. A. eborac£nsis Penn., Brit. Zool., iv. 99., tab. 25. 

 fig. 3. Cuvieria Phantapus Flem., Brit. Anim., 483. ; Blainv. Man. 

 d'Actinologie, 194. 



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Description. — Body fusiform, thick and round, resting on 

 an oblong flat disk, obtuse and cylindric anteally, tapered to 

 an obtuse point retrally, covered with imbricate, semicircular, 

 granular, subcalcareous scales, and with a thin epidermis of 

 an earthy brown colour, under which it is a greyish white, 

 sometimes marked with faint orange dots. Exsertile part of 

 the head ligamentous, about an inch in length when fully 

 protruded, covered with scattered scarlet tubercles, and with 

 some white conical papillae arranged in five imperfect rows : 

 mouth a simple aperture in the centre of the circle formed by 

 the tentacula, of which there are ten, nearly equal in size, 

 with a thick cylindrical stalk dividing upwards in an arbuscular 



