Mr. R. Templeton on a neiv species of Vaginuk. 49 



veins broadly black ; exterior margin black, with a marginal row 

 of small spots, submarginal and third row of large and less 

 distinct spots ; hind-wing with all the veins black, also a mar- 

 ginal row of ill-defined, black, lunular spots. Under side paler 

 greenish-white ; all the veins of both wings less black than the 

 upper side, with an indistinct marginal row of spots. Body 

 longitudinally striped black and white. 



Expanse 3J inches. 



Hab. N. India. In British Museum Collection. 



Allied to H. consimilis, but may be distinguished by its larger 

 size, and by the absence of the broad, transverse, spotted bands. 



VII. — On a new species o/* Vaginula /rom Ceylon. 

 By Robert Templeton, Esq. 



[With a Plate.] 



The genus Vaginula was formed by Ferussac for the reception 

 of small, flattish Limaces which he had received in spirits from 

 Brazier it formed the first genus of his second section Tetracera, 

 which included the Slugs wdth four horns, as contradistinguished 

 from the first section, made up of the single genus Oncidium, 

 which had only the ocular pair. Shortly after the institution of 

 the genus, Mr. Guilding added another species from the island 

 of St. Vincent*, and subsequently other species were added by 

 Lesson from Lima, by Van Hasselt from Batavia, and by Ferussac 

 himself from specimens forwarded to him from various parts of 

 India. These species are described in the ^ Histoire Naturelle 

 des MoUusques,^ p. 90 (1819). I believe, in respect to species, 

 the genus remains much in the same state as when left by its 

 distinguished author. 



The species now added has most affinity to Hasselt's Batavian 

 species, but is perfectly distinct from all : it is very common in 

 moist places during the prevalence of the S.W. monsoon in the 

 lower country about Colombo in Ceylon, 



There is another species (PI. II. B. fig. 6), somewhat larger 

 and ferruginous in colour, with less obvious markings, in the 

 district about Ratnapoora; but I have not had an opportunity 

 of carefully examining it. 



Vaginula, Ferussac. 



F. maculatay Temp. Plate II. B. fig. I. 



Body ovate-oblong, depressed, rounded behind ; the dorsum 



* Linn. Trans, vol. xiv. p, 323. 

 Ann, §• Mag, iV. Kxst, Ser, 3. Voh i. 4 



