80 Mr. MoSFTAcir's Description of Marine Animah 



These have a slight roughness in appearance when examined by 

 a lens; but must not be confounded with D. verrucosa, which is 

 also found on the south coast of Devon, and is strongly tubercu- 

 lated, and in other respects very, different. 



DOUIS MACULATA. 



Tab. VII. Fig. 8. 9. 



With a slender body, tapering to a point at the posterior end,, 

 furnished with several pairs of large subclavate peduncles along 

 the back: the summit of each of these is cleft or divided round 

 the margin, usually sexpartite ; the centre is somewhat concave, 

 from whence arises a single papilla : front obtuse : tentacula two, 

 large, trumpet-shaped, from the middle of which springs a long, 

 slender, filiform, retractile appendage: colour pale yellow, with 

 minute spots of pink. 



Length, a quarter of an inch, or rather more. 



The tubercles on the back of that from which the drawing was 

 taken were four pairs, and a single one near the extremity of the 

 body. The peduncle magnified is shown at fig. 9. 



AmPHITRITE VOU'TACOltNIS, 



Tab. VII. Tig. 10. 

 The length of this singular and beautiful animal is about five 

 inches, and the breadth half an inch ; near the head a little de- 

 pressed, and somewhat smaller towards the posterior end, where 

 it is more flattened, and terminates in a tongue-shaped point: 

 the tentacula are more than an inch long, elegantly plumose 

 and convoluted : the stem is furnished with long ciliated fibres on 

 one side ; and as it makes about three spiral turns, the fibres be- 

 come 



