?S Mr. Montagu's Description of Marine Animals 



grow to as large a size as in the Mediterranean sea, being some- 

 times taken five or six inches in length, and when contracted 

 would fill a large tea-cup. The beautiful purple dye which is dis- 

 charged so copiously from this animal might, possibly, be turned 

 to some advantage, if a method could be devised to fix it : we 

 have seen several yards of a fishing-net stained with it under 

 water ; and with difficulty it is washed off the hands. 



Doris pinxatifida. 



Tab. VII. Fig. 2. 3. 



With the front rounded ; body slender, somewhat taper : co- 

 lour gray, spotted with olive green : on the fore part two trumpet- 

 shaped tentacula, terminated by a retractile filiform appen- 

 dage : along the back are two rows of pedunculous appendages, 

 longer than the diameter of the body ; these are of a conic shape, 

 each composed of five or six series of blue gray papillae, marked 

 with a black spot at their tips : the stem or centre part of the pe- 

 duncle is a mixture of olive green and rufous brown. Fig. 3. is a 

 magnified representation of the peduncle. 



Length, three-tenths of an inch. 



DoiUS C.liRULEA. 



Tab. VII. Fig. 4- 5. 



"With a linear body, of a green colour, covered with large 



blue clavated tubercles greenish at their base, and tipped with 



orange ; these are disposed in several transverse rows : tentacula 



four, sub-filiform, green : eyes placed at the base of the hindmost 



tentacula : between the second and third row of tubercles are 



two pink oval vesicles on the back, a little inclining to one side. 



Fig. 5. represents the peduncle magnified. 



Length, a epiarter of an inch. 



Doris 



