HERM^A. 609 



A. SPLENDIDA, Alder and Hancock. 



Plate B. B. B., fig. 6. 

 Alder and Hancock, Ann. Nat. Hist. 2nd Series, vol. i., p. 190. 

 Spence Bate, Notes on Fauna of Swansea, p. 7, plate 2. 



Body (one inch and a quarter long) lemon-coloured, 

 si^otted on the back with blue, rather elongated. Branchise 

 very numerous, large, and inflated, clothing the sides of the 

 back, and passing round the front of the head, ovate, pale- 

 bufl^, brown centrally, tinged with opake blue ; they are 

 ranged in thinly transverse rows of five papillffi in each. 

 Oral tentacles short. Foot lemon-yellow. 



Taken at Torbay by Dr. Battersby, and in Fowey 

 Harbour, Cornwall, by Mr. Alder. Mr. Spence Bate has 

 figured it from a single specimen taken by Mr. Moggridge, 

 in Langland Bay, near Swansea. 



HERM^A, LovEN. 



Body elongated, limaciform, not provided with a distinct 

 mantle. Tentacula two, auriform, involute ; groove ex- 

 ternal. Branchise elongate, papillose, simple, arranged 

 along the sides of the back. Vent in middle and anterior 

 part of back. Generative orifice lateral, beneath the right 

 tentacle. 



The mollusks of this genus have no jaws. They form a 

 link between the Eolidldtz and Ehjslada, and probably 

 with Stiliger constitute a distinct family. 



1. H. DENDRiTicA, Alder and Hancock. 



Plate Z. Z., fig. 1, 



Mouog. pt. iv. fam. 3, pi. 40, and (as Calliopcea dendritica) Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 vol. xii. p. 233. 



Body (three-tenths of an inch long) ovate-oblong, 



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