128 DORIDID. 
the apex; foot oblong, broad, fleshy, flatly rounded, and without an 
anterior groove; posteriorly it is obtusely accuminated; colour (in 
spirit) dirty white ; the mantle spicules seem to be absent (Abraham.) 
Length, 1°65 ; breadth, 1°2. 
When living the pustules on the mantle are hemispherical ; the foot 
and rhinophores are bright orange ; the mantle dirty yellowish orange ; 
branchiz paler. It is sometimes 4 or 5 inches in length. 
Auckland to Dunedin. 
D. carinata, Quoy, lc, i, p 254, pl. 16, fi. 14-16; Chenu, f. 
3052. Oval, convex, rough, keeled above; dirty-yellowish ; tentacles 
truncate, pediculated ; branchize tuberculated, covered with small rude 
hairs; branchie of four little ciliated tubercles; size small; colour 
yellowish-white ; foot whitish (Q. & G.) 
River Thames. 
This species belongs to the genus Afagema of Gray. 
Sub-Family— Leptoglosse. 
Oral tentacles united into a veil; odontophore narrow and _ strap- 
shaped, with but few spines in each transverse row. 
Genus, ACANTHODORIS—Gray. 
Body convex; mantle moderate, covered with soft papillie ; oral 
tentacles united ina veil, with free flattened lateral ends; branchiz united 
at the base, non-retractile ; odontophore narrow, with two large spines, and 
several rudimentary ones in each transverse row, none central ; usually 
a spinose buccal collar, and rudimentary under jaw. 
North Atlantic and New Zealand only. 
A. mollicella, Abraham, P.Z.S., 1877, p. 262, pl. xxx., fr 1-4. 
Body ovate, convex, soft ; mantle covering the back and sides, but not 
extending over the border of the foot ; bearing above large, long, linear, 
or sub-conical ; soft papillee, which are especially numerous at the sides 
and around the branchiz ; rhinophores, long, slender, pointed, 
apparently conical, and laminated far down ; the denticulated sheath, 
through which each is retractile, has two of the antero-lateral 
divisions enlarged and produced into two long flat conical papillee ; 
branchize seven to nine, bipinnate, non retractile, their bases united, and 
set in a star round the short tubular anal opening; oral veil short from 
before backwards, with the lateral ends free and flattened ; foot broad 
and oblong, truncated (or the outline curving inwards) in front, and 
without a transverse groove ; it is flatly rounded behind, and the border 
all round is flattened, crenulate, and extending beyond the mantle, 
particularly posteriorly ; colour (in spirit) uniform dark greyish-olive 
(Abraham.) 
Length (in spirit) 11; breadth, °7 inch. 
Auckland Islands only. 
A elobosa, Abraham, ZS. oT 7p) 202," DL sxx e/a 5.0: 
Body ovate, broad, very convex and inflated ; mantle membranous on 
