GASTEROPODA. 301 
Doris supeRBA (Gould). 
D. magna, rotundato-ovalis, fimbria latissima nisi ad frontem cincta, 
intense sanguinea, tridescens, punctis flavis ocellatis hic illic glome- 
ratts irrorata: caput parvum, rotundum ; tentaculis labialbus ovalibus 
palnatis, septem-lobatis ; tentaculis cervicalibus curtis, recurvis, acutis ; 
stella branchiahs magna, plumulis lilacinis duodecim (paribus sex) 
racemiferis, racemis quinque-foliatis foliolis quinque-lobatis. 
Animat large, rounded oval, with a very broad, ruffled margin, two- 
thirds as wide as the body, emarginate in front; colour intense blood- 
red, with a play of purple, everywhere bedewed with minute, ocellate 
yellow dots, sometimes clustered, as about the tentacles; cervical ten- 
tacles short, with a reflexed, conical, lamellar club, Branchial star as 
wide as the true body, composed of six pairs (twelve grouped by twos) of 
short, crowded, botryoidal plumes, each cluster composed of five pedi- 
cellated, smaller clusters, and each member of these latter being a five- 
lobed leaflet; pedicle about the length of the cluster ; colour pale lilac, 
tinted red. Anal tube short, simple, exposed. 
Beneath, the colour is somewhat paler and dotted in the same 
manner, shading off and becoming yellow near the margin of the ruffle. 
Head small, circular, with a seven-lobed expansion on either side, 
extending to the width of the foot and sweeping backwards; mouth 
large, longitudinal ; lips lemon-coloured. 
Length five and a half inches ; breadth four inches. 
Obtained at Fangasai Bay, Tutuilla, Samoa Islands. 
Of the size and colour of D. Sandnichensis, Souleyet (Voy. de la 
Bonite, tab. 25, f. 1-4), but that is less intensely red, the ruffle is not 
deficient in front, the oral tentacles are less lobed ; ruffle pale beneath ; 
back pale and mottled, not dotted; branchial plumes eight, plumose. 
{n almost every point it agrees with D. fammulata, Quoy, except in 
the labial tentacles and plumes. 
Figures 396, 396 a, dorsal and ventral views of the animal; 396 3, 
cervical tentacle in outline ; 396 c, plumule and leaflet, enlarged. 
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