50 EOLIDID^!. 



27. E. AM(ENA, Alder and Hancock. 



E. amcena, A. & H. in Ann. N. H. 1st eer. xvi. p. 316 ; Brit. Nud. Moll, 

 fam. 3, pi. 20. 



BODY greenish-white, with brown markings and white spots : 

 dorsal tentacles long, transparent, greenish-white, with white 

 spots : oral tentacles about half the length of the dorsal pair, 

 and similarly banded : branc7iial processes yellowish-green or 

 olive, spotted with yellowish-white, often having a brownish 

 base and two or three bands of brown spots above; tips 

 transparent ; they are set in 8 distant rows, the anterior close 

 together, the others more distant : foot rather narrow, the 

 anterior angles very little produced and slightly rounded. 

 L. 0-3. 



HABITAT : Dredged in Torbay and Fowey Harbour ; not 

 uncommon in the latter place (Alder). [Cumbrae, rare 

 (Robertson).] 



This pretty little species may be known from its congeners, 

 E. viridis and E. Norfhumbrica, by its brown markings, and 

 especially by the brown rings on the tentacles ; the green is 

 also more or less yellowish or olive. 



28. E. NORTHUM'BRICA, Alder and Hancock. 



E. Northumbrica, A. & H. in Ann N. H. 1st eer. xiii. p. 165 ; Brit. Nud. 

 Moll. fam. 3, pi. 31. f. 2, 3. 



BODY rather slender, of a delicate greenish white : dorsal 

 tentacles moderately long, white and strongly wrinkled above, 

 with the apices truncated : oral tentacles nearly as long as the 

 dorsal pair, white and obtuse at the tips: branchial processes 

 stout and subclavate, of a cold bluish green, with white tips, 

 set in 9 rather distant rows: foot with the anterior angles 

 blunt and a little produced. L. O25. 



HABITAT: On a Coralline from the fishing-boats, Culler- 

 coats (Hancock); rocks at the same place (Norman and 

 Mennell). 



