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Art. XXVI.— Description of a new Species of Miolis. By T. W. King, 
Assistant in the Colonial Museum. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th December, 1882.] 
Tue beautiful little animal described below was collected at Napier by Mr. 
A. Hamilton, of Petane. Mr. Hamilton kindly forwarded specimens both 
in glycerine and spirit, so that the bright colourings are to a large extent 
preserved. Iam also indebted to him for notes of colours, ete., taken from 
living specimens. The accompanying figures of the animal are natural size. 
Solis, Cuv 
Animal ovate ; dorsal tentacles smooth, oval, slender; papille simple, 
cylindrical, numerous, depressed, and imbricated ; month with a horny 
upper jaw, consisting of two lateral plates united above by a ligament ; 
foot narrow; tongue with a single series of curved, pectinated teeth; 
Spawn of numerous waved coils. 
i ZEolis gracilis, sp. nov. 
Body small; tail sharply pointed. Gills as long as greatest width of 
the body, papillose, crowded, but placed in three tolerably distinct groups 
on each side of a broad clear line running from the base of the tentacles 
to the tip of the tail; oral tentacles subulate, rather distant, about twice 
as long as the greatest width of the animal. Tentacles approximate, about 
half as long as the oral tentacles. Foot expanded, produced in front, 
margin thin, slightly puckered. 
Colour—body and foot pale pink; tentacles and gills bright red pro- 
minently tipped with white. 
Length, *9 of an inch. 
Hab.—On Ulva, Napier (collected by Mr. A. Hamilton). 
eas Yes 
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