CUCUMARIA. ih 
2. Cucumaria planci. (Plate II. fig. 2 & Plate VIII. fig. 1.) 
Holothuria pentacta, Z., Gmelin, Syst. Nat. xiii. (1788) p. 3189 
artim). 
us doliolum, Lamk. An. s. Vert. iii. (1816) p. 74 (partim) ; 
de Bl. Dict. Sci. Nat. xxi. (1821) p. 317 (partim). 
Cucumaria planci, Marenzeller, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxiv. 
(1874) p. 800; Ludwig, Mitth. zool. Stat. Neap. i. (1879) p. 565 ; 
Carus, Faun. Medit. (1885) p. 107; Lampert, Seewalzen, (1885) 
p- 140; Théel, Chall. Rep. Hol. (1886) p. 101; Chadwick, Proce. 
Liverpool Biol. Soc. iii. (1889) p. 180; zd. op. cit. vy. (1891) p. 81 
(spontaneous fission). 
Body more or less cylindrical; skin slightly wrinkled, not very 
rough with very numerous, rather small scales; podia retractile, 
and sometimes appearing as mere knobs, arranged in two net very 
regular rows in each ambulacrum. 
Deposits in the form of spherical scales, with few perforations and 
many knobs and delicate hemispherical framework (PI. II. fig. 2). 
One to four inches long. 
Skin brownish or with brown patches, podia of a much lighter 
colour. 
Distribution. Eastern side of North Atlantic, from Portuguese 
to British coasts; Mediterranean ; Mauritius (?). 9-30 fms. 
a—b. Off Kerrera. J. Murray, Esq. 
e-e. Off Liverpool. 
F-k. Coast of Cornwall. 
l. Coast of Cornwall. 
m. Falmouth. W. P. Cocks, Esq. 
n-q. S. Devon. - Mus. Leach. 
( Holothuria communis.”) 
= 
3. Cucumaria pentactes. (Plate IIT. fig. 1 & Plate VIII. fig. 2. 
? Hydra corolliflora, Gaertner, Phil. Trans. lii. (1762) p. 80, pl. i. b. 
fie. 3. 
Holothuria pentactes, (?) Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. (1767) p. 1091; (?) O. 
F. Miiller, Prodr. Zool. Dan. (1776) p. 232; (?) Pennant, Brit. 
Zool. iv. (1777) p. 42, fig. 41; (?) O. F. Miler, Zool. Dan. i. (1788) 
p. 36, pl. xxxi. fig. 8; Fleming, Brit, An. (1828) p. 482; Thomp- 
son, Ann. § Mag. v. (1840) p. 247. 
Le fleurilardé, Dicquemare, Observ. sur la physique, xii. (1778) p. 283; 
Beil, Ann. § Mag. viii. (1891) p. 406. 
Holothuria pentactes, var., Montagu, Linn. Trans. ix. (1808) p. 112, 
1. vil. fig. 4. 
Aiglothurin pentacta, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (1789) p. 3189 (partim) ; 
? Lamk. An. s. Vert. iii. (1816) p. 73. 
Holothuria dicquemarii, de Bl. Dict. Sci. Nat. xxi. (1821) p. 317. 
Holothuria gaertneri, 7d. op. cit. p. 518. 
Holothuria montaguii, Fleming, Brit. An. (1823) p. 488. 
Cucumaria pentactes, Forbes, Brit. Starf. 1841, p. 218; Maitland, 
Faun. Belg. (1851) p. 95; Thompson, Nat. Hist. Irel. iv. (1856) 
p- 442; Lampert, Seewalzen, (1885) p. 145; Carus, Faun. Med. 
(1885) p. 107; Bell, Proc. R. Irish Ac. iv. (1886) p. 620; Topsent, 
Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm, ii. (1889) p. 112. 
