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Archidoris staminea, ^i>er. nov. 
Plate vi., figs. 3 and 4. 
Body irregularly elliptical, very slightly narrower pos- 
teriorly, convex. Cloak ample, frilled along the border ; 
colour, a uniform tint of yellow ; roughened by very nume- 
rous small tubercular elevations and depressions, which cover 
the skin as separate, stellate, or radiate groups of notches : 
the underside of the mantle, of a similar yellow colour, is 
marked with vein-like threadlets, multiply dividing and 
branching towards the outer edge. Foot rounded anteriorly, 
sides almost parallel, terminating in a blunt point, slightly 
channelled : colour yellow, darkened somewhat in the centre 
by the appearance of the liver through the skin. Dorsal ten- 
tacles clavate, situated rather far anteriorly. Oral tentacles 
linear, prominent. Eyes visible in small examples as little 
black specks behind the rhinophores. 
Dim. — Length 32, breadth 19 mm. 
Hah. — Dredged in 20 fathoms, Backstairs Passage, 
January, 1903 (Verco). 
Staurodoris pustulata, Abraham. 
Plate ix., fig. 3. 
Doris pustulata, Abraham, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 
205, PL xxix., figs. 18, 19. Staurodoris (?) pustulata, 
Bergh, Reis. im Arch, der Phil. ii. (2), 1892, p. 1093. 
The species before us corresponds well with that described 
by Abraham, but as that description was taken from spirit 
specimens, we add the following account of the live ani- 
mal : — 
Body elliptical, moderately convex. Mantle ample with 
a slightly waved margin : of an uncommon greenish-grey 
ground colour, covered with numerous opaque, yellow, warty 
tubercles of various sizes, standing out prominently from the 
darker background like golden beads. Foot tapers posteriorly 
to a blunt point, well within the mantle-margin : colour of 
the entire under-surface, a light flesh-red. Rhinophores 
completely retractile within cavities, the openings to which 
are surrounded with a circlet of nodulations. Branchial 
plumes, seven, tripinnate, of a deeper shape of grey. 
Radula straw-yellow. Lateral spines numerous, about 
68 on either side, increasing in size from centre outwards, no 
central spine, from 25 to 30 rows in specimen examined. 
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Dim. — Length 20, breadth 11 mm. 
Hah. — Dredged in 20 fathoms. Backstairs Passage, Janu- 
ary, 1903 (Verco). 
