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distinction between the outer longitudinal muscular layer y and the integument much 

 more clearly than is so often the case in other Schizonemertea, where these two have be- 

 come blended, but which also enables us to trace the course of radial nerve-fibres coming 

 from the plexus or the longitudinal stems, and innervating (after having traversed the 

 muscular layer 7 and this basement tissue) the glands and sense-cells of the integument. 

 Cerehratidus corrugatus is, moreover, the species in which, for this reason, I was able to 

 determine the direct part which the longitudinal nerve-trunks take in the innervation of 

 the skin (PL XIV. fig. 2), whereas, even in this very favourable specimen, I never 

 noticed the faintest trace of a similar participation of nerve-branches directly springing from 

 these stems in the innervation of the subjacent musculature. In that case such branches 

 would have to take an opposite course, and would have to traverse in the first instance 

 the circular muscular layer /3. This was never observed. It will be seen in the paragraph 

 more especially treating of the nervous system, as well as in the chapter devoted to 

 general considerations, that this fact is, in my opinion, not without morphological 

 importance. 



The specimen of Cerebratulus corrugatus is also of great importance in demonstrating 

 the relation of the medio-dorsal medullary nerve and the branches springing from it at 

 right angles as so many thickenings of the plexus (PL XIII. fig. 2). 



Cerebratulus parTceri, n. sp. (PL XIV. fig. 5 ; PL XV. figs. 5, 16). 



A well-preserved specimen of a Schizonemertean was collected in the New Zealand 

 waters, which, I think, may safely be looked upon as belonging to a distinct species. 



I have dedicated this species to the naturalist who of late years has done so much for 

 our knowledge of the New Zealand fauna, and whose anatomical preparations and zoologi- 

 cal collections from those regions have excited the admiration of visitors to the Colonial 

 and Indian Exhibition of 1886. 



The head and anterior body fragments of Cerebratulus parkeri are thus described in 

 M'Intosh's preliminary notes : — 



"A fragment of the anterior portion, measuring about 34 mm. in length, and about 

 7 mm. in diameter at its flattened and widest region. The cephalic furrows and mouth 

 conform to the ordinary type. The body is somewhat rounded anteriorly ; flattened 

 towards the posterior end of the fragment. 



" Transverse sections of the rounded anterior region show that the muscular walls of 

 the body are greatly thickened .... the longitudinal muscular fibres form a very 



thick coat all round, especially, as usual, opposite the nerve-cords The 



circular muscular coat is uniformly thick, the longitudinal layer within it being excavated 

 superiorly by the large channel for the proboscis, and laterally by the very large and 

 very muscular vascular canals — a little below each nerve-trunk. The thickened part of 



