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Show 1877.] ANTHOBRANCHIATE NUDIBRANCHIATE MOLLUSCA. 233 Gen. TEGIRUS, Loven, 1846. AEgires, Loven, 1844. Body convex, covered with large tubercles. Mantle indistinct, represented by a supracapital veil, and by a tubercular ridge along each side. Rhinophores linear, smooth or hispid. Branchiae non-retractile. Odontophore with simple, curved lateral spines ; no central spine. An upper corneous jaw. 1. JE. PUNCTILUCENS, Loven. Polycera punctilucens, D'Orbigny, Mag. de Zool. vii. p. 7, pl. 106. f. 1-3 (1837). Doris maura, Forbes ; AEgires punctilucens, Loven. Hab. North European coasts. 2. JE. LEUCKARTII, Verany, Journ. de Conch, iv. p. 388 (1853). Hab. Mediterranean (Nice). 3. JE. HISPIDUS, Hesse, Journ. de Conch, xx. p. 346 (1872), and figured xxi. pl. 12. f. 3-7. Hab. Coast of France (Brittany). Gen. NOTODORIS, Bergh, 1875. Body limaciform (the back not distinct from the sides). Rhinophores smooth, retractile in cavities protected by valves. No buccal armature. Lingual teeth, none median, the lateral ones erect and hook-shaped. (Bergh.) N. CITRINA, Bergh, I. c. Heft viii. p. 64, T. 9. f. 32-45, & T. 10. f. 1-8 (1875). Hab. Rarotonga. Gen. CERATOSOMA, Adams & Reeve, 1848. Body elongate, prismatic, smooth, ending in a bluntly pointed tail; the dorsal surface passes into a postbranchial fleshy protuberance. Mantle obsolete. Rhinophores laminated. Branchiae with the roots more or less coherent, placed in front of, and partially around, the tubular anus, with which they are retractile into a common, smoothly margined cavity. Odontophore with numerous rows of simple spines, none of which are central. A spinous buccal collar. 1 C CORNIGERUM, Adams & Reeve, Zool. of Voy. of Samarang, "Moll. &c." p. 68, pl. 19. f. 5 (1848). Doris triflda, Gray; C. trilobata, id. Hab. Sooloo and Philippine seas. 2. C TRILOBATUM, Adams. D. trilobata, Gray, M. E. Gray's Fig. Moll. An. iv. p. 13, t. 67. f. 14(1850). C. trilobata, id. |