114 TETHYS-PHYCOPHILA. 



" Aplysia lessoni L. emend Gm." of Mazzarelli and Zuccardi, Boll. 

 Soc. Nat. Napoli iii, 1889, p. 51, from coral reef at Honolulu, 

 Hawaiian Is., can scarcely be the A. lessoni of Kang (see p. 86). 

 Can the specimen possibly have exchanged locality labels with A. 

 chierchiana, also collected by Chierchia, and described in the same 

 paper ? 



Subgenus PHYCOPHILA A. Adams, 1861. 



Phycophila AD., Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3), 

 viii, p. 141 (August, 1861). Placobranchus M. E. GRAY, Figs. 

 Moll. Anim., iv, p. 35, 1850. Aclesia (Pacobranchus) GRAY, t. c. t 

 p. 98. 



Body compressed, elongated ; sole of foot narrow ; shell elon- 

 gated, oblong, thin, flat, membranous, the apex not involute. (Ad.). 

 Type A. euchlora. 



This group, as far as known, is mainly distinguished by its very 

 much elongated tail, and the narrow sole adapted -to creeping on 

 floating weed away from the shore. Its true affinities and status 

 cannot be determined from the meagre data now extant. Were it 

 not for the membranous shell mentioned by Adams I would refer 

 this group to Stylocheilus. 



T. EUCHLORA A. Adams. PL 61, fig. 54. 



Green, smooth, compressed ; sole narrow ; forward tentacles 

 elongated, backward tentacles narrow, truncate at their apices ; tail 

 produced. Shell membranous, oblong, dilated in front, the apex 

 not involute, (Ad.). 



Strait of Tsugaru (Tsugar or Tseuka), Japan, crawling on floating 

 Zostera (Ad.). 



Aplysia (Phycophila) euchlora A. AD., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), 

 viii, August, 1861, p. 141. Placobranchus euchlorus in M. E. 

 Gray's Figures of Molluscous Animals, iv, p. 35 (name only) ; ii, 

 pi. 179, f. 1, right hand fig. (1850). 



Mrs. Gray's figure was etched from a drawing by Arthur Adams. 

 She gives the locality " Borneo." " It is oceanic in its habits, or at 

 least found at some distance from the shore." 



T. ADAMSI Pilsbry, n. n. PI. 61, fig. 55. 



No description of this species has been published. It is known 

 by a figure drawn from life by Arthur Adams. The very long tail, 



