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tubercles ; white, with a few ocellated black spots on the back, the centres of which 

 are granulated with black within a jet-black ring : the spots become smaller towards 

 the margin of the cloak, where they are uniformly black. Dorsal tentacles clavate, 

 white, with black laminae and tips. Oral tentacles slender, hnear, tipped with black or 

 chocolate-brown ; the head rounded. Branchial plumes six, large, quadripinnate, with 

 black stems ; retractile within an ample cup, the margin of which is considerable pro- 

 duced. Foot large, with a deep, strongly notched frontal lamina, spotted with black ; 

 produced a little beyond the cloak behind, and ending in a blunt point : white, with a 

 row of black spots on the upper margin, shining through below, as do also the spots 

 on the margin of the cloak. Length 2| inches. 



Spicula small, linear, and pointed, occasionally a little bent in the centre. 



Tongue as in D. tuberculata ; the spines large, and occasionally of a bright grass- 

 green ; no collar. 



Doris funebris, Kel. in Journ. Asiatic Soc. (Ceylon Branch) 1858 ; idem in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. 3rd ser. vol. iii. p. 293. 



This beautiful Doris is not unfrequent on the Coromandel coast — though rare on 

 that of Ceylon, according to Dr. Kelaart, from whom we have three fine examples. 

 Only one specimen is preserved in Mr. Elliot's collection. 



Genus Chromodoris, Alder Sf Hancock. 



Body elongate, subquadrate. Cloak narrow, covering the head, but exposing the 

 foot, smooth (?), generally marked with bright colours in stripes or spots. Dorsal ten- 

 tacles laminated, retractile. Oral tentacles conical or tubercular. Branchis linear, 

 simply pinnate, surrounding the vent on the medio-dorsal line, retractile. Tongue 

 broad, with numerous close-set plates, arranged in many transverse rows, and each 

 bearing two large spines, one set in advance of the other ; the posterior one with three 

 or four denticulations. No central spine or plate. A buccal collar formed of a pair of 

 broad plates, with closely arranged, minute, bifid spines. 



Chromodoris zebrina, n. sp. (PI. XXIX. fig. 7.) 

 Body elongated, slender, rounded in front, and tapering to a point behind ; white, 

 with red and yellow markings. Cloak broadly rounded, and produced considerably 

 beyond the head in front ; nearly parallel at the sides, narrow and rounded posteriorly ; 

 it is white, with a waved crimson stripe down the centre of the back, and transverse 

 stripes of the same colour (of unequal lengths) at the sides and round the ends ; there 

 are largish yellow spots down each side of the central stripe and between the transverse 

 ones near the margin : a crimson stripe also runs from the cloak along a ridge to the 

 tail. Dorsal tentacles longish, clavate, with the laminated part crimson, the margin of 

 the orifices a little raised. No oral tentacles : the head rounded in front and indi- 



