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SAGARTIADiE. 
When received, several young algse, — one apparently 
a minute Laminaria, another a Rhodymenia ;palmata , — 
were growing from the upper margin of the epidermis ; 
a fact which is of value as showing the persistency of this 
investment, which, moreover, was not separated during the 
subsequent period of the animal’s captivity. 
The trivial name of this species I have formed from the 
yausape, or rough frieze coat which the Koman soldiers 
wore in cold weather. 
The only known locality for this Phellia is, as above 
stated, — AVick, C. W. P. 
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GAUSAPATA. 
murocincta. 
picta. 
