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broad, vertical uotcli. Reproductive organs large and prominent; tbe 

 two orifices are situated on a large tubercle in front of the gill. Tbe 

 male organ, iu extension, is loug, slender, usually curled, truncate, about 

 equal iu length to half the breadth of the body; it is a tubular organ, 

 with a slit along the lower side, formed by the rolling up of a loug, thin, 

 membranous process. At the posterior edge of the tubercle there is a 

 shorter, flat-pointed process, connected with the female organs. Color 

 of dorsal surface yellowish brown, lighter or darker, and reticulated 

 with dark brown, often specked with flake white ; gill and proboscis 

 dark purplish brown ; the proboscis with a darker dorsal patch ; tenta- 

 cles sometimes crossed by dark brown bands. Foot salmon-color. 

 Odontophore very large and broad, witli 150 to 170 rows of teeth ; no 

 median teeth ; all the teeth are similar in structure, and show only a 

 gradual change in form and size from the inner to the outer ones. The 

 inner ones are elongated, slightly curved, narrow-lanceolate, with a very 

 acute point and with a smaller, narrow, sharp denticle on the inner 

 edge, parallel to but shorter than the main ])oiut ; the outer teeth grad- 

 ually become shorter, blunter, with a smaller denticle, which finally 

 nearly disappears. Length, usually 30"'" to -lO'"'"; breadth, 10""" to 14"'"'. 

 About 20 miles south of Block Island (stations 814 to 817), in 38 

 fathoms ; about 70 to 74 miles south of Martha's Vineyard (stations 865 

 to 872), in 6o to 192 fathoms, fine, compact sand, very abundant (140 

 specimens). Also 90 to 100 miles south of iS^ewport, R. I., iu 85 to 225 

 fathoms (stations 873 to 879). Closely resembles Pleurobranchcca Novcv- 

 Zealcindkv in form and color. The latter is a littoral species. 



Derdronotus elegaiis Verriil, sp. nov. 



Form and general appearance nearly as in D. arborescens^ but rather 

 more slender. Branchia; with rather longer stems and less numerous 

 branches than in the latter, but similarly arranged. Tentacle sheaths 

 with the terminal lobes not so finely divided, and with a smaller branch 

 on the outer side, near the base. Frontal processes of the head numer- 

 ous, large, with elongated stems, and not so much branched as in D. 

 arhorcscens. Color everywhere nearly uniform pale salmon ; teutacles 

 more yellowish. The dentition is peculiar and distinguishes it easily 

 from both our other species. Median tooth stout, smooth, entirely desti- 

 tute of lateral denticles ; its free portion, in a dorsal view, is broad-trian- 

 gular, almost as broad as long, acute at tip; base transversely elliptical, 

 a little broader than the free portion. Lateral teeth about ten on each 

 side, slender, the outer two or three shorter, blunt or subacute; the 

 others are successively longer and larger, and each has a more acute and 

 more oblique tip than those that precede it, except the inner one, which 

 has a shorter tip, with longer spiuules. These lateral teeth are rather 

 suddenly curved inward where they begin to taper, and beyond the curve 

 the tip becomes nearly straight again, and very acute, while the anterior 

 edge of the curvature is covered with slender, sharp si)inules. 



Proc. Xat. Mus. 80 25 ®ec. 2S, 188©. 



