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VEUMES. 
Tullberg, T. a new genus of invertebrate animals. Bihang 
till Sv. Ak. Handl. Hi. No. 13, 12 pp. 2 pis. ; abstr. Arch. Z. exp^r. 
V. pp. i.-iv. 
A very enigmatical creature, N. carinata, presenting obscure ana- 
logies with worms and snails (therefore considered by Ihering as form- 
ing, with Chcetoderma and Chiton^ the connecting links between Vermes 
and Gastropoda) y dredged in the fjords of West Sweden. Body oblong, 
without any trace of articulation ; mouth and vent terminal ; a ventral 
furrow ; skin thick, velvety, from warts and spines of carbonate of lime ; 
a protrusile “pharynx” without “ radula”; body cavity almost filled by 
a spacious stomach, the walls of which are transversely lamellated ; 
rectum short ; one supra- oesophageal and two sub-oesophageal ganglia, 
giving off 4 longitudinal nerve- trunks, 2 ventral and 2 lateral, without 
ganglia ; a large ovary (structure laminated) fills the space between the 
wide stomachal tube and the thick skin of the back ; eggs in a special bag 
above and behind the rectum ; a pair of glands, the effluent ducts of which 
are connected with a “ mushroom-like ” protrusile (?) organ, perhaps re- 
present the male organs, &c. (According to later investigations by Koren 
and Danielssen, Neomenia = Solenagus, Sars, and a true Gasteropod 
though without ‘ radula.') 
