VERONICELLA. 305 



tentacles are generally bifurcate at tip, or rather there is a 

 supplementary tentacle or spur, which can be protruded just 

 short of the point of the tentacle ; sometimes the tips are said to 

 be even palmate. 



It lives in families under stones and trunks of trees, and some- 

 times buried in the earth. It is capable of retiring from damp 

 places, and sometimes inhabits very dry localities. It issues 

 forth in the night and on wet days, when it may he found upon 

 trees. Its movements are very rapid ; no slimy traces are left 

 behind them as in the case of the Limaces. 



The eggs are large and oval, ten or fifteen being joined together 

 in a necklace-like gelatinous thread, which is coiled and more or 

 less covered with mucus. 



Veroisacella floridana) Binney. — Animal (contracted in alco- 

 hol) elongated oval, about four times as long as broad, the sides very 

 slightly curved, and the extremities circularly rounded ; back convex, 

 regularly arched in every direction ; surface very slightly wrinkled ; color 

 dark ashy gray, mottled with black, with a median whitish line, on each 



Fig. 541. 



VeroniceUd floridana. • 



side of which, at about one-third the distance towards the margin, is an 

 ill-defined stripe of black ; beneath drab colored ; foot occupying about 

 one-third the width ; eye-peduncles short, annulated, the tentacles not 

 very distinctly bifurcate. Length 56, breadth 18 mill. 



Vaginulus floridanus, Bisney, Terr. Moll. II, 17, pi. Ixvii (1S51). — Leidt, 



T. M. U. S. I, 251, pi. iv, anat. 

 Veronicella Jloridana, Cuend, Man. de Conch. I, 472, f, =" 



3501,3502(1859). 0^^^^h^ 



Jaw ai'cuate, narrow, ends rounded, posterior sur- "^^^ °^ 



Ve7-oniceHa 



face with 24 ribs, crenulating the concave margin. jiuridana. 



20 February, 1869. 



