64 DEXDRONOTID.E. 



tips, set in single series, 6 on each side ; the first pair are in 

 front of the tentacles : foot rather broad, rounded in front and 

 slightly produced at the sides. L. 1. 



Habitat : Dredged on the coast of Northumberland by Mr. 

 G. S. Brady, and in the Frith of Clyde by Mr. A. Robertson. 

 [The Minch, off Loch Ewe, in 60 f. (J. G, J.).] 



This rare and interesting species is a recent acquisition to 

 the British fauna. It was discovered on the Swedish coast 

 by Professor Loven. 



Genus III. LOMANO'TUS [*], Verany. 



Body limaciform, subquadrilateral : head with a short veil : 

 tentacles laminated, with sheaths : branchial processes papillose, 

 or foliaceous, arranged in a nearly continuous hue on a slight 

 paliial ridge or rudimentary mantle : foot linear : odontopliore 

 broad, with numerous denticulated spines, which decrease 

 centrally ; no central spine. 



Verany described this genus in the ' Eevue Zoologique ' for 

 1844. His name is consequently prior to that of Eumenis 

 given to the same genus by Alder and Hancock in the follow- 

 ing year. 



1. Lomanotus marmora'tus, Alder and Hancock. 



Body a good deal angulated, olivaceous or fawncoloured, 

 marbled with dark brown and white : head with a small tu- 

 berculated veil : tentacles subclavate. strongly laminated, issu- 

 ing from short, rather tight sheaths with smooth margins : 

 branchial processes running in a continuous undulating line 

 of papillae down each side of the back to the tail ; they are 

 fawncoloured, with white edges : a line of dark brown mark- 

 ings runs down the centre of the back on a white ground, and 

 the sides of the body are marbled with longitudinal streaks of 

 dark brown and white : foot narrow, with the front angles 

 produced into longish processes. L. 0-5. 



[ * From the fringes on its back.] 



