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Has been fouiul at Charlotte Harbor and Punta Eassa, on the west 

 coast of Florida,* and on the Southern Keys. 



The above description is obviously very imperfect, inasmuch as it is 

 drawn from a dead and greatly contracted specimen, and as no notes of 

 the animal have been found excepting as to its locality. The charac- 

 ters, however, are suflBciently marked to distinguish the species. From 

 its slight reticulation in its contracted state it must have been quite 

 smooth when extended. Its colors are similar to those of Tebennophorus 

 CaroUniifisis, and similarlj^ distributed. The tentacles are not very 

 conspicuously spurred, but the puncture for the protrusion of a spur is 

 manifest. 



The genitalia are figured by Leidy {I. c). A remarkable peculiarity 

 of this genus is the removal of the male and female portions of the sex- 

 ual apparatus from each other. The former, except the testicle and 

 prostate gland, occupies the usual position, but opens externally be- 

 tween the mouth and olfactory orifice ; the latter is placed in the mid- 

 dle inferior part of the visceral cavity, and opens exteriorly on the right 

 side, interiorly just posterior to the middle of the body. The testicle 

 is situated between the posterior part of the stomach and the liver, on 

 the right side. It is not lobulated, but has the same aciniform arrange- 

 ment as in other limaciform genera. The epididymis is moderately tor- 

 tuous, and becomes the vas deferens at the junction of the ovary with 

 the oviduct. The vas deferens takes a remarkable course to get to the 

 penis. It is at first attached for a short distance to the commencement 

 of the oviduct, which it leaves, and then winds around its lower ex- 

 tremity, where it is joined by a comparatively very small prostatic 

 gland. It continues its attachment to the lower part of the oviduct to 

 the junction of the latter with the duct of the generative bladder, where 

 it receives a small duct from the duct of the latter organ, and then 

 passes nearly to the external female orifice, where it turns abruptly for- 

 wards between the muscular peritoneum and the right edge of the podal 

 disk, and continues this course to the head. It now turns abruptly 

 backwards to the right, and again appears within the visceral cavity 

 and passes to the base of the penis sac. The penis is a conico cylin- 

 droid, contorted organ, contained within a thin, muscular sheath. Its 

 apex i)resents a small, round papilla or glans, and into its base is in- 

 serted the retractor muscle, which arises just anterior to the pulmonary 

 cavity. The lower part of the preputial sheath of the penis is joined 



* Stearns refers it also to Nicaragua, but I doubt its beiug so widely distributed. 



