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VAGINULUS FLORIDANUS. 



Plate LXVn. 



V. corpore elongato-ovali, lateribus vix arcuatis, extrem- 

 itatibus semicircularibus, dorso i;ptundato, quoquoversum ar- 

 cuato, subtiliter rugoso, cinereo, fusco-marmorato, linea 

 mediana alba et fasciis lateralibus imperfectis fuscis ornato ; 

 subtus luteo-albido, disco transversim plicato, trientem lati- 

 tudinis componente ; tentaculls inferioribus incerte bifurcatis. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Animal (contracted in alcohol) 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 wliitish Ime, on each side of 

 which, at about one-third the distance towards the mar- 

 gui, is an ill-defined stripe of black ; beneath drab col- 

 ored ; foot occupying about one-third the width ; ten- 

 tacles short, annulated, the lower ones not very distinctly 

 bifurcate. Length two and one-fourth inches ; breadth 

 three-fourths of an inch. 



Geographical Distribution. Found at Meta-lee- 

 chee Key, Charlotte Harbor, on the western coast of 

 Florida, ui a moist place, a little under ground. 



Remarks. The above description is obviously very 

 imperfect, inasmuch as it is described from a dead and 

 greatly contracted specimen, and as no notes of the ani- 



