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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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Zoology -- Periodicals
3. DORIS, _&c._--The little _Doris aspera_ swims, back downwards,
on the surface of a glass of sea-water, copulates, and deposits its
semicircular oothecæ. The brain of the common Lemon Doris is of a fine
orange colour, enveloped in a glandular matter, and is constituted by
a complicated assemblage of ganglia: there are acoustic sacs and dark
ocular spots upon it. There are six ganglia on the buccal mass, and
about six or eight minute ones on the stomach. The anal sac appears
to be a purple- or ink-bag; and the so-called matrix is composed of a
peculiar substance, swelling enormously in water, of which it renders
a large quantity viscid, and being also coagulable by alcohol and
bichloride of mercury, but not by heat. Spermatozoa were found in the
genital vesicle, as well as in the epididymis and its cæcum. The spines
of the lingual plate are uniform, and in number about 10,000.
4. APLYSIA, _&c._--_Aplysia_ has been before alluded to. Cuvier, in
his generally beautiful drawings, has scarcely done justice to (5)
_Ianthina_, nor to its beautiful float and ootheca; it is peculiar
for its fins, and the disk at the back of the foot. With respect to
_Magilus_, it should be removed from the (6) Tubulibranchiata, its
animal being a _Purpura_ in structure, with a bent horny operculum, and
a very long linear appendage on the right side of the head, leading to
the supposition that the animals are of different sexes, though there
seem to be difficulties in the way of sexual congress. In the specimen
examined, the spire of the shell was not solidified; the animal had a
short proboscis, with rather bent subulate feelers, and eyes on the
outside; it had also a rich purple secretion near the rectum on the
right side.
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