DORIS. 231 



Branchial star of nine plumes, simply pinnate, pale at edges and 

 partially folded, about half as wide as the body, the transverse diam- 

 eter a little the longer. Foot yellow, tinted roseate, about two thirds 

 as wide as the body in front, and projecting a little behind when in 

 motion, bluntly rounded at tip and at the front, whicli is quite in 

 the rear of the front of the body. Head very short, crescentic, about 

 the width of the foot, pointed at sides. Length, one and a half 

 inches ; breadth, nearly an inch. 



Found in deep water, Boston and Beverly Harbors (^Ag-assiz^. 



This is the largest species yet found on our shores, and is the 

 representative of D. tiiberculata of Europe, if indeed it is not iden- 

 tical. But if the drawings may be relied on, the branchial plumes 

 of our animal are much more simple, the tentacles more clubbed 

 and closely plaited, and the margins of the sheaths from which they 

 issue are not simple, as in D. luberculata. 



Doris planulata. 



Plate XX. Figs. 294, 296. 



Body broad, mantle expanded beyond the foot, covered with white minute tu- 

 bercles ; white, with a row of irregular bright-yellow spots down each side ; 

 branchial plumes ten, small, pinnated. 



1 Doris repandu, Aidkh antl IIakcock, in Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. .32; Brit. Nudib. Moll. 



Fam. 1, pi. 6 (1847). 

 Doris planulata, Stimpson, Mar. Invert. Gr. Manan, 26, fig. 14 (185.3) ; Check Lists, 4 



(1860). 



Body broad, depressed, mantle expanded widely beyond the foot, 

 covered aljove with minute tubercles, and wdiite with a row of irreg- 

 ular bright-yellow spots down each side just without the margin of 

 the foot. Dorsal tentacles elongated, slender ; branchia? very small, 

 consisting of about ten delicately pinnated plumes. Foot narrow, 

 truncated anteriorly, and extending posteriorly to the edge of the 

 mantle. Mouth very small, with a flat triangular lobe on each side. 

 Length, six tenths of an inch ; breadth, forty-five hundredths of an 

 inch. 



Found at Grand Manan, and on stones at low water, Passama- 

 quoddy Bay, in July. 



Differs but slightly from D. repanda^ Alder and Hancock. 



The above description is copied from Stimpson. It corresponds 

 so nearly with figure and description of D. repanda. Aid. and Han., 

 that I scarcely hesitate in regarding them as indicating the same 

 species. 



