VERONICELLIDA. 89 
ATHORACOPHORUS, Gould. 
Syn.—Janella, Gray. Aneitea, Gray. Aneiteum,McDon. Tri- 
boniophorus, Hubert. 
Distr.—New Hebrides, ete. A. bitentaculata, Gray (ci, 51). 
Animal limaciform. subeylindrical, tapering behind ; inferior 
tentacles wanting; mantle anterior, small, triangular, lateral, 
adherent, enclosing the shell-plate; no longitudinal furrows above 
the margin of the foot, and no caudal mucous pore; no distinct 
locomotive disk; external respiratory and anal orifices on the 
right central margin of the mantle; orifice of the combined 
genital system behind and below the right eye-peduncle. 
Shell-plate internal, flat, calcareous, oblong, sometimes in 
separate grains. 
Jaw smooth, with median projection and quadrate accessory 
plate. 
Lingual membrane with peculiarly shaped teeth, with long, 
narrow, curving, base of attachment, and low, transverse, mul- 
tifid cusp. 
The animal has peculiar dorsal grooves. 
CONOPHERA, Hutton. Eye-peduncles short and conical. (C. 
marmorea, Hutton. New Zealand. 
SuporDeR DITRE MATA. 
Male and female orifices widely separated ; oculiferous tentacles 
simply contractile, not invertible. 
Famity VERONICELLID 4. 
Characters those of the genus Veronicella. The Veronicellidz 
are terrestrial, the Oncidiide, aquatic animals. 
VERONICELLA, Blain (emend.), 1817. 
Syn.—Vaginula, Fer., not Vaginulus, Stoliczka. 
Distr.—Asia, Africa, South and North America, in warm lati- 
tudes. V. Floridana, Binney (cii, 66, 67). 
Animal limaciform, elongate-ovate, rounded above, flat below, 
margins expanded ; tentacles bifid, unequal, contractile; mantle 
covering the whole back; no longitudinal furrows above the 
margin of the foot, and no caudal mucous pore; no distinct loco- 
motive disk; external respiratory orifice connecting with a tube 
to the anal orifice at the extreme posterior under part of the 
animal ; orifice of the male genital organ at the base of the right 
tentacle, of the female organs at the middle of the right under- 
side of the animal. No internal shell or plate. . 
Jaw with numerous ribs. Lingual membrane quite peculiar, 
marginals quadrate. 
The Veronicelle of South America live in families, hiding 
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