110 Description of Neiv and Little known Specks of 



nated ; of a dull rose colour, and speckled yellow in small 

 specimens. Dorsal tentacles with small clavate, pointed 

 apex. Oral tentacles white, short, pointed. Foot broad, 

 oval, of a dark red colour with a pale whitish edge. 



Found in deep water in the Inner Harbour of Trincomalie. 

 The mantle of this species resembles much that of D, picta, 

 but its spines and chocolate "coloured foot sufficiently distin- 

 guish it from that species, which has a white foot and beau- 

 tifully painted under side of mantle. They live for many 

 months in a Vivarium. 



Doris Casta ne a. Kel. 



Carneous. Body one and a quarter inch long. Mantle 

 thick, granular and tubercular ; of a reddish chestnut colour. 

 Dorsal tentacles red, short, laminated ; tip produced, whitish. 

 Oral tentacles short, linear, pointed. Branchial plumes 6 (?) 

 short, bipinnated j of a purplish colour. Under parts deep 

 vermillion red, and speckled with darker red. Foot short, red. 



Found near Sober Island, Trincomalie Harbour. 



Sub-genus. Onchidoris. 

 Ojs t chidoris Leachii, Blainv. 



Carneous. Body oval, about \\ inch long. Mantle gra- 

 nular and studded with filamentous granules. Those on the 

 posterior third of mantle often large, and appearing like small 

 branchial plumes. No dorsal tentacles. Two oral tentacles, 

 which appear to protrude through notches, from under the 

 anterior edge of mantle. The foot is broad and nearly 



