TEBENNOPHORUS. 



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never had seen an individual of tlie genus. He suggests tliat 

 Limax carolinensis, Bosc, may belong to it, judging from the 

 figure alone. Gray, H. & A. Adams, and Morch adopt the name 

 of Philomycus, on the supposition that Rafinesque had before 

 him a Tebennophorus when describing Philomycus (in 1820). 

 It may be he had, but as he did not make it so appear, I have 

 preferred adopting the first name evidently applying to it. 



3Ieghimatium, or Incillaria, an Asiatic genus, is by some 

 considered identical with Tebennophorus. 



Te1>enuophorus carolinensis, Bosc— Color of upper surface 

 whitish, or yellowish-white, variegated with clouds and spots of brownish 

 and blackish, so arranged as to form three ill-defined longitudinal bands, 

 one on the centre of the back, and one on each tlank, extending from the 

 head to the posterior extremity, anastomosing more or less with each 

 other, and having smaller spots of the same color between them ; inferior 

 margin white, or yellowish ; foot whitish. Mouth surrounded with a 

 circular row of papillae. Body elongated, subcylindrical, flattened towards 

 its posterior extremity, which is obtuse ; eye-peduncles one-fourth of an 

 inch long, brownish or blackish, stout, terminating in a bulb ; ocular 

 points on the superior part of the bulb ; tentacles immediately below the 

 eye-peduncles, white, very short, nearly conical. Mantle fleshy, covering 



Fig. rj32. 



T :btitnoi>hni-us caolhunsis. 



the whole body, its anterior edge tinged with brownish, and falling in a 

 slight curve between Vie two eye-peduncles, reaching on the sides to the 

 margin of the foot ; posterior extremity rounded ; cuticle covered with 

 irregular vermiform glands, anastomosing with each other, and having a 

 general tendency to a longitudinal direction, with shallow furrows between, 

 lubricated with a watery mucus, and susceptible of contractions which 

 proiiuce a slow, undulatory motion, like the flowing of water, over the 

 wliole surface. Foot whitish, extending a little beyond the mantle pos- 

 teriorly, showing a whitish flattened border. Orifice of the organs of 

 generation on the right side, at a little distance behind and below the 

 eye-peduncles. Respiratory orifice large, on the right side, one-fourth of 

 an inch behind the origin of the eye-peduncle ; anal orifice in closf con- 

 tact, a little above and in front of it ; above the respiratory orifice, ou the 



