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the back. Foot not keeled, tapering, without any caudal gland. Re- 
productive orifice on the right side, anterior to the pulmonary opening. 
Shell rudimentary or present. Mouth with a horny jaw. 
* New Zealand and the New Hebrides only. 
Genus, JANELLA—Gray. 
Mantle absent. Shell rudimentary. Back with a longitudinal 
groove extending along the middle ‘of the whole length of the animal, 
and giving off oblique branches from each side. Eye penduncles short, 
cylindrical. Foot divided from the body by a broad lateral groove. 
Teeth numerous, similar ; the plates short and serrated. 
New Zealand only. 
J. bitentaculata, Quoy and Gatmard ; Voy. Astrol. ii., p. 149 ; 
PapUs ee Ji i=3h5) ACAMS Gen. MOIL» pl. 580, 5153 ChENM., © fa 2409 fh 
antipodarum; Gray, A. Nat. Fitst., 2-12-414; Knight, Trans. Linn. 
Soc., Xxil., . 381. Head distinct ; mouth oval ; tentacles rather short, 
clubbed at the end; eyes very small, terminal. Back with a deep 
longitudinal groove extending the whole length, commencing from the 
head, divided rather to the left to surround the pulmonary aperture, 
which is placed on the back, and with oblique strize diverging from each 
side of this groove. Foot scarcely distinct from the rest of the body, 
yellowish white. The back is dirty yellow, with pale brown spots. It 
has no appearance of any shield containing a horny shell (Quoy.) Teeth 
about 300, in a transverse row; transverse rows forming an obtuse 
angle. 
Tasman Bay. Wellington. Dunedin. 
J.papillata, Yutton; Trans. N. Z. Inst, Xi., p. 332. Like 7. biten- 
taculata, but with small papille on the back between the oblique 
grooves. 
Wellington. Dunedin. 
Genus, KONOPHORA—Hutton. 
Back with a longitudinal central groove, giving off oblique branches 
on each side. Eye peduncles short conical. Foot not divided from 
the body by a groove. 
K.marmorea, Hutton; Trans. N.Z. Inst.,xi., p. 332. Bodysmooth, 
rounded above, scarcely distinct from the foot ; tail rounded. Back 
with a central groove with lateral branches sloping obliquely backward. 
Colour blackish, marbled with pale brown on the back ; an indistinct 
black lateral line ; region round the pulmonary opening yellowish. 
Dunedin. 
* For remarks on the anatomy of this family, see Dr. Macdonald, A.N.H., 
2nd series, vol 18, p. 38 ; and Dr. Gray, A.N.H., 3rd series, vol 6, p. 195. 
