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302 Mr. E. L. Layard^s Rambles in Ceylon. 



HoloihuricB than those of the Sea Egg or Echina, for I cannot 

 discover any regular perforations, such as are found in the am- 

 bulacra of the latter animals. They end abniptly, but there 

 is an obsciirely marked rather darker line, which extends from 

 their extremity a greater or less distance towards the upper 

 part of the tube. The aperture of the tube is circular, and I 

 cannot find any trace of a second opening to the alimentary 

 canal. 



The animal is l^^^ long ; the dilated body -f-^ long and -^^ wide, 

 y'g- thick from side to side. 



The only specimen known may be designated Rhopalodina 

 lageniformis. 



In general external appearance it resembles a Sipkunculus with 

 a scaly covering like the scaly Holothurice, and with distinct am- 

 bulacra like those animals, but only covering theappe? half of the 

 club-shaped part of the body ; but, unlike the Holothurice, which 

 have the ambulacra limited to a part of the body, the part where 

 these are situated is that which is the most convex. For the pre- 

 sent I should be inclined to place it as the type of a new family 

 between Holothuria and Siphunculus. 



XXX. — Rambles in Ceylon. By Edgar Leopold Layard, Esq. 



To Richard Taylor, Esq. 



[Continued from p. 236.] 



AUawattegodde, Top of Balacadua Pass, 

 April 23, 1852. 



My dear Sir, — I resume my narrative from this place — so much of 

 my way back to Jaffna. I closed my last letter at Allagamo on the 

 night of Sunday the 13th, after which we pushed on vigorously and 

 got into Kandy safe and sound, in spite of all the ill-omened prophe- 

 cies with which we started ; though, absurdly enough, while standing 

 at the farrier's door, giving him instructions about shoeing the horse, 

 the back-band of the harness gave way, and down we came : fortu- 

 nately neither of us was hurt. B. left the next morning by the mail, 

 and I heard from him by return that he had arrived just in time for 

 the Bombay steamer. I managed to get over my business in Kandy 

 in one day, and loving the jungle more than the town, I left by day- 

 light the next (Saturday) and came on here, intending to halt for my 

 Sunday. Here I have been ever since, for my horse, who has never 

 been among the hills but once before, and is therefore quite unused 

 to them, has been quite lame, and I but little better ; however, we 

 are both getting well, and my friend C. (at whose house I am stopr 

 ping) and I go down the Pass tomorrow to Matelle, the scene of the 

 late rebellion. I ride one of his horses, and poor old Baba takes the 

 buggy down this evening. I have not been idle during my stay here ; 



