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phores standing quite anteriorly ; the back quite even, but with many 

 small nodules at its junction with the margin. The gill-hole far 

 behind, with prominent margin ; the number of leaves of the gill 6. 

 The mouth a fine pore, no visible tentacles. The foot rounded in 

 front, the tail short. 



The central nervous system as usual ; the buccal ganglia (fig. 4) 

 much smaller than the salivary glands. The eyes 0*14 mm. in 

 diameter, with large yellow lens ; the otocysts 0'10 mm. in diameter, 

 filled with otokonia. . The skin full of spicules of the most different 

 sizes, form, and degree of calcification (fig. 3). The most of the long 

 spicules of a diameter up to at least O05 mm., mostly smooth, some- 

 times a little thorny, mostly clear, sometimes even blackish. In the 

 interstitial tissue masses of spicules ; as also in the axis of the rhino- 

 phores, but almost none in the lamellae. 



The mouth tube about 4 mm. long, white. The glandula ptyalina 

 about 1 mm. broad, rather thick. The transparent bulbus pharyn- 

 geals (fig. 4«) unusually, nearly 17 mm., long by a general diameter of 

 04 mm.; at its hinder end the salivary glands rather large (fig. Abb). 

 The oesophagus rather short and wide (fig. 4c) ; the intestine 6 mm. 

 long. The liver a little flattened, in nearly its anterior half very 

 compressed by the anterior genital mass, yellowish white, 10 mm. 

 long by a breadth of 5, the cleft in the hinder end 1-5 mm. long. 



The hermaphrodite gland clothing the largest part of the liver, of 

 a similar colour, and with ripe genital elements in its lobules. The 

 large anterior genital mass yellow and white, 6 mm. long by a height 

 and breadth of 4. The form and the armature of the penis as usual 

 (figs. 1, 2). 



This form is specifically different from the D. spiculatd* 



3. Doriopsis c^sia, B. n. sp. 



An individual was taken by dredge near Eoman Eock Lighthouse 

 (SE. J S., 1} miles) from a bottom of sand and shells in a depth of 

 10 fins. 



The living animal is noted to have been " bluish." Preserved, it 

 was whitish with the margin of the back more grayish, the rhino- 

 phores yellowish. The length was 14 mm. by a breadth of 75 and 

 a height of 4*5 ; the height of the rhinophores 2, the diameter of the 

 gill 4, the breadth of the brim of the back 3, the breadth of the foot 

 3 mm. 



* R. Borgh, Die Nacktschneeken der Siidsee. Journal d. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 Heft xiv., 1878, p. 37. taf. ii., figs. 13-15. 



