BDELLODEA CLEPSINEA CLEPSINE ORNATA. 9f53 



are flesh-color, specked with pale orange and purplish. The papillse of 

 the lateral carinse are partly orange and partly brown. The margin is pale 

 purplish, with conspicuous squarish spots, alternately bright green and 

 orange. The rest of the upper surface is variegated with bright green and 

 pale brown, and specked with darker brown. Lower surface pale green, 

 with a median light line ; the margins colored as on the upper side. 



"The attached young, June 6, were about 0.12 of an inch long, and 

 very slender in extension. Anteriorly, they were purplish-red, with bright 

 red specks, and with a median row of red points, while several median 

 white spots occupied the positions of the large transverse orange spots of 

 the adults. Posteriorly the branched lobes of the intestine gave a greenish 

 color to the body. Ocelli closely united into a transversely triangular 

 or bilobed spot of bright red." 



West River, near New Haven, Conn., on the lower sides of submerged 

 wood and pieces of boards. 



Var b, stellata. Body broad-oval in contraction; moderately elongated 

 in extension; strongly annulated; in extension about 1.25 to 1.50 inches 

 long and 0.20 to 0.30 broad; in contraction about 0.40 long, but some- 

 times larger than this; head obtuse in front; ocelli more or less confluent 

 into a conspicuous transversely triangular or bilobed eye, usually sur- 

 rounded by a white area; back moderately convex, with numerous quite 

 small papilla;, forming a transverse row on each annulus. Along the middle 

 of the back there is a longitudinal row of somewhat larger and more 

 prominent, yet small, conical papillae, and two similar rows exist on each 

 side between the median row and the margins. The larger papilla; are 

 usually tipped with white; color above variegated dark greenish-brown, 

 with a median line and marginal spots. 



The surface is covered with brown and green stellate specks, and some- 

 times Avith some orange-colored ones ; the green ones generally prevailing 

 toward the margins. Along each edge and around the acetabulum, there 

 is a series of flesh-colored, pale yellowish, or light orange, semicircular spots; 

 head with a transverse median spot of white. A pale yellow or white 

 transverse line crosses the neck. The dark green, brown, or blackish 

 median dorsal line is scarcely interrupted. One or two longitudinal rows 



