64 DENDRONOTID^. 



tips, set in single series, 6 on each side ; the first pair are in 

 front of the tentacles : foot rather broad, rounded in front and 

 slightly produced at the sides. L. 1. 



Habitat : Dredged on the coast of Northumberland by Mr, 

 G. S. Brady, and in the Frith of Clyde by Mr. A. Eobertson. 

 [The Minch, off Loch Ewe, in 60 f. (J. G. J.)-] 



This rare and interesting species is a recent acquisition to 

 the British fauna. It was discovered on the Swedish coast 

 by Professor Love'n. 



Genus III. LOMANO'TUS P], Verany. 



Body limaciform, sub quadrilateral : head with a short veil : 

 tentacles laminated, with sheaths : hrancliial processes papillose, 

 or foliaceous, arranged in a nearly continuous hue on a slight 

 pallial ridge or rudimentary mantle : foot linear : odoniophore 

 broad, with numerous denticulated spines, which decrease 

 centrally ; no central spine. 



Verany described this genus in the * llevue Zoologique ' for 

 184-4. His name is consequently prior to that of Eumenis 

 given to the same genus by Alder and Hancock in the follow- 

 ing year. 



1. LoMANOTUS marmora'tus, Alder and Hancock. 



Body a good deal angulated, olivaceous or fawncoloured, 

 marbled with dark brown and white : liead with a small tu- 

 berculated veil : tentacles subclavate, strongly laminated, issu- 

 ing from short, rather tight sheaths with smooth margins : 

 branchial processes running in a continuous undulating line 

 of papilla3 down each side of the back to the tail ; they are 

 fawncoloured, with white edges : a line of dark brown mark- 

 ings runs down the centre of the back on a white ground, and 

 the sides of the body are marbled with longitudinal streaks of 

 dark brown and white : foot narrow, with the front angles 

 produced into longish processes. L. 0*5. 



[ '-^ From the fringes ou its back.] 



