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valve lined with cubical cells, bearing remarkably long and 

 heavy cilia. The external opening of the kidney is by a short 

 slender canal that ends on the anal papilla, just in front of 

 the anus. 



The Nervous System. The nervous system of Laila cock- 

 erelli is centralized in a manner similar to that of the tyi^ical 

 Doridida>. In the cerebro-pleural mass the fusion seems even 

 greater than usual, so that when viewed from above no dis- 

 tinction into cerebral and pleural ganglia can be made out, 

 although on the under side two distinct lobes are visible. Below 

 the posterior part of the cerebro-pleural are situated the pedal 

 ganglia, which are well developed and joined to them by very 

 short connectives. There are also a pair each of olfactory, 

 optic, and visceral ganglia, making six pairs in all of supra- 

 cesophageal, as well as the single pair of buccal ganglia, which 

 are infra-cesophageal. The buccal ganglia are normally situ- 

 ated most anteriorly, but their position relative to the rest of 

 the ganglia varies with the position of the buccal mass, as 

 the buccal ganglia have a fixed position close to the origin of 

 the oesophagus and so are moved forward and backward when 

 the buccal mass is moved, while the other ganglia are com- 

 paratively stationary. 



The buccal ganglia are ovoid, about 200 microns in the long- 

 est diameter, joined to each other by a very short commisure, 

 and to the cerebral by a long, slender connective that has its 

 origin a short distance in front of the cerebro-pedal connective. 

 They give off four pairs of nerves. Three of these enter the 

 l)uccal mass directly, the posterior pair going to the region of 

 the origin of the tongue. The fourth pair, which bear numer- 

 ous minute ganglia, go upwards to the oesophagus, and run 

 backwards between it and the salivary glands, to which 

 branches are probably given, and continue back to the liver 

 mass, where they probably join the network of accessory nerves 

 and ganglia, although this could not be positively determined 

 in the specimens examined. This accessory system, which is 

 descrilied by Hancock and Embleton as covering the stomach 

 and the lobes of the livermass in Doris, is very delicate in this 



