592 EOLIDIDiE. 



anterior rows subdividing and clustering below. Ten- 

 tacles subulate, smooth. Anterior angles of foot pro- 

 duced. 



Dredged off Berry Head, Torbay (Alder). 



Section II. Flahellina. — Branchiaj clustered. Body 

 slender. Dorsal tentacles usually wrinkled or laminated. 

 Buccal ones long. Spawn of many coils. 



4. E. coRONATA, Forbes. 



Eolida coronata, Forbes, Proc. of Brit. Assoc, in Atlieiifeum for 1839, No. 618, 

 p. 647. — Alder and Hancock, Monog. part 2, fam. 3, 

 plate 12. 



Body (an inch long) linear-lanceolate, white tinged with 

 pink. Branchipe linear, cylindrical, crimson, blotched 

 with blue, and tipped or ringed with opake white, ar- 

 rano'ed in six or seven clustered or transverse rows, the 

 anterior ones consisting of numerous (20-oO) papillae, the 

 hinder ones gradually decreasing. Dorsal tentacles yel- 

 lowish, subclavate, coronated with lamellar rings. Oral 

 tentacles long, slender, simple. Anterior angles of foot 

 produced. 



Not uncommon in the Scottish seas ; generally distri- 

 buted around all our shores. It inhabits the laminarian 

 zone. 



5. E. LONGicouNis, Montagu. 



Doiis lonf/icornis, Montagu, Linn. Trans, vol. ix. p. 107, pi. 7, fig. 1. 

 Moiikifliia lomjicornis, Fleming, Brit. Ann. p. 285. 



Body (half an inch long) lanceolate, yellowish-white. 

 Dorsal tentacles short (as figured they are clavate and 

 smooth) ; oral ones very long (smooth). Branchiae in 

 transverse rather distant series occupying nearly the 

 whole of the back, the first row clustered, the remainder 



