THE 
be MON DOZRBETS 
OES 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body repent, oblong, flat beneath. 
Mouth placed below, toward the anterior end. 
Vent behind, furrounded above by a fringe. 
Tentacula two, feated on the upper part of the 
body in front, retractile. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, €8c. 
OVAL DORIS with ímooth body; the vent 
furrounded by a ramified fringe. 
LEMON DORIS. 
Pennant Brit. Zool. 4. p. 36. 
THE SEA-LEMON. 
The animals of this genus are greatly allied to thofe 
of the genus Limax, but are entirely marine. The 
fpecies of Doris are numerous. The largeft as well as 
the moft elegant of the European kinds is that figured 
on the annexed plate. In colour it varies much; being 
fometimes of a yellow, more or lefs deep, and fome- 
times of a bright orange, or even fcarlet. It is not 
unfrequently found on feveral parts of the coafts of 
Britain. 
