DOLABELLA. he 
the middle of the animal’s length, its borders contiguous, not capable 
of being much separated. Posterior disk round, large, bounded by 
a conspicuously fringed ridge. Entire surface of body bristling with 
acute more or less elongated processes. 
Color, dark or bright-green. 
Shell solid, loosely coiled, covered outside with a strong yellow or 
yellow and brown cuticle; sculptured with irregular, wavy wrinkles 
of growth. Spire very heavily calloused above and at the inside 
edges; sinus very deep and very concave; margin of growth very 
convex, especially below; back with a broad reflexed border along 
the left margin, a narrow border along the edge of the sinus. Length 
50, breadth 40 mill. 
Amboyna (Martyn) ; Moluccas (Rumph.); Timor (Peron); Wai- 
giou and Rawak, and Islet of Pangai-Modou, Tongatabu (Quoy & 
Gaim.) ; Paramatta River (Angas), Port Jackson and Bellenger 
River (Brazier), E. Australia; Dungeness and Darnley Is., Torres 
Straits; Low I., Trinity Bay and Home Is., N.-E. Australia (Braz- 
ier); Mauritius (Peron, Q. & G., Ad., et al.) ; Réunion (Desh.) ; 
Seychelles and Amirante Is. (Dufo) ; Natal (Krauss). 
Patella scapula Martyn, Univ. Conch., iii, pl. 99 (17) ; Chenu’s 
reprint Bibliotheque Conchyliogique (1), ii, p. 26, pl. 34, f. 3.— 
Dolabella scapula AnGAs, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 227.—? Doris verrucosa 
GMEL., Syst. Nat. (13), p. 3103 (1788).—Barput, The Genera 
Vermium, pl. 4, f. 1.—Dolabella callosa Lam., Syst. An. s. Vert. 
(1801), p. 62 (founded on Rumphius, Mus., pl. 40, f. 12).—Dolabella 
es, Cuvier, Ann. du Mus. d’Hist. Nat., v, p. 437, pl. 29, f. 1-3 
(1804).—D. rumphu Cuv., Regne Anim., ii, p. 398, pl. 34, f. 1.— 
Lam., An. s. Vert. vi, (2me pt.), p. 41 (1822) ; and edit. Desx., vii, 
p- 699 (1836).—Apams & REEVE, Zool. Samarang, Moll., p. 65, pl. 
18, f. 4—Martens in Mobius’ Beitr. zur Meeresfauna Maurit., p. 
306.—Krauss, Die Stidafrik. Moll., p. 72.—Smiru, Zool. coll. H. 
M.S. Alert, p. 89.—Brazigr, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., ii, p. 88. 
—Aplysia rumphi Rane, Hist. Nat. Aplys., p. 46, pl. 1—Quoy 
& GAIMARD, Voy. de |’Astrol., Zool., ii, p. 308, pl. 23, f. 4, 5.— 
Dolabella perontt Buatnv., Dict. Sci. Nat., xiii, p. 395 (1819); 
Manuel de Malacol., p. 473. 
Allied to D. hasseltii, but the dorsal slit is more anterior and the 
color nearly uniform. It seems to be very widely distributed over 
the Indo-Pacific life-area. It is eaten in Amboyna. 
