90 TETHYS-WEST AMERICAN. 



rior portion long, swimming lobes inserted rather far back. Buccal 

 lobes flattened and folded as usual, black within the fold. Poste- 

 rior tentacles rather near together, conic and slit above, black 

 within the slit, situated somewhat nearer buccal lobes than swim- 

 ming lobes. Swimming lobes short and not very ample, united for 

 a short distance behind. Mantle provided with a central minute 

 tube ; concentrically wrinkled ; having an uncommonly long poste- 

 rior excurrent siphon, the left lobe tongue-like and long. 



Genital pore in the usual position ; genital groove long. Opaline 

 gland opening by a single large orifice. 



Color " pale gray or greenish, becoming purplish on the side, folds 

 of mantle with scattered white specks, from which an irregular net- 

 work of brown lines extends over the rest of its body, interspersed 

 with large brown blotches. Inner surface of [swimming lobes] varied 

 with alternating painted bars of white and dark brown interlocking 

 together. Sole of foot black. Eyes very minute and black." The 

 alcoholic specimen before me is yellowish, finely netted and spotted 

 all over the sides and back with black brown, sole blackish ; mantle 

 black-brown with large yellowish maculae ; inside of swimming lobes 

 black-brown barred boldly with dirty yellowish, the dark bars 

 branching at the upper edges of lobes. 



"Shell cartilaginous, translucent, trapezoidal, or hatchet-shaped, 

 margins rounded, slightly convex above, the nucleus in old spec- 

 imens distant from the posterior end or apex. Faint radiating lines 

 diverging from the nucleus, crossed by an irregular net-work of 

 darker lines, all ending abruptly at some distance from the margin, 

 which has thus a wide, nearly transparent border. An accessory 

 plate arises on the inner surface from the nucleus, nearly spatulate 

 in form and slightly raised." (Coop.). The shell of the specimen 

 figured on my plate shows the essential features mentioned by 

 Cooper, but the accessory plate projects squarely above the upper 

 margin. The minute, incurved apex is situated some distance with- 

 in the margin, being 4 mill, below the upper edge in the specimen 

 figured. 



Monterey to San Pedro, California. 



Aplysia (Neaplysia*) californica J. G. COOPER, Proc. Cal. Acad- 

 Nat. Sci. iii, 1863, p. 57, fig. 14Neaplysia californica, J. G. 

 COOPER, Geographical Catalogue of the Mollusca found west of the 

 Kocky Mountains between lat. 33 and 49 N., no. 241, p. 14 (Geol. 

 Sunr. of Cal. 18670 



