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sections to appear veiy thin in comparison to that of other species. However, closer 

 inspection reveals (as will l)e more fully discussed in the paragraph devoted to the 

 integument) that the deeper glandular layer is not wholly deficient, that it has only 

 become intercalated amidst the outer longitudinal muscular layer, which in this species is 

 not very massive, and that its cellulo-giandular elements thus reach amongst these muscle 

 fibres, even as far down as the nervous layer just outside the circular muscular coat 

 Icf., PI. XII. figs. 2, 10). The strong afiinity which these gland-cells possess for staining 

 reagents brings this out in the sections very clearly. 



Nor is this the only distinctive feature of Cerehratulus meduUatus; the second, and 

 none the less important, is that in the nervous plexus just alluded to, the dorso-median 

 longitudinal thickening, which I shall presently, in the anatomical part of this Report, 

 designate as the medullary nerve, is exceptionally massive (cf., PI. XL fig. 10 ; PI. XII. 

 fig. 9), being about one-third to one-fourth of tlie thickness of the fibrous core of the 

 lateral longitudinal nerve-trunks. Amidst the fibres of this dorso-median stem a few 

 nuclei, more faintly coloured and marking the presence of nerve-cells, are also seen. 



In longitudinal sections through the same specimen, the unusual size, distinctness, 

 and marked individuality of this nerve-stem was also very obvious. 



No other features of this species will for the present be enumerated. The specimen 

 on which it is founded was of the female sex. 



I sincerely hope that tlie points here enumerated may enable American naturalists, 

 when recapturing specimens of the species, to recognise it and to give us indications of its 

 colour and other peculiarities in life, of the shape of its head and cephalic slits, and of its 

 brain lobes and proboscis. 



Cerehratulus longifissus, n. sp. (PI. I. fig. 16 ; PL XV. figs. 1, 9, 10). 



No other Schizonemertea were collected between the last-mentioned station and 

 Marion Island (Station 144a). A Cerehratulus was here brought to light, which it will 

 in future be easy to recognise by the fact of its having uncommonly long cephalic slits. 

 The specimen, which w:is perfect, and is also characterised by its comparative shortness, is 

 figured on PI. I. fig. IG. On inspecting it with the naked eye the mouth was found to 

 be small and to be situated anteriorly ; the proboscidian aperture occupied the place 

 indicated in the figure, whereas on the dorsum of the animal, just behind the end of the 

 slits, two rows of sublateral, very small pores were noticed, being visible as extremely small 

 white punctures. These rows were continued very far backwards. Although, on account 

 of their reaching so very far forwards, they might at first sight be taken for the exterior 

 openings of the nephridial system, the sections showed that they are indeed the 

 generative pores. Moreover, that the cephalic slits, though long, are comparatively 

 shallow, especially in their posterior portion, and that the canals leading into the posterior 



