120 Description of New and Little known Species of 



spotted white. Back whitish green, dotted with black and 

 green, and spotted like the black. Edge of mantle black, and 

 shaded with golden ; under surface of wings tubercular and 

 dotted black. 



Found on sea weed. Not easily distinguished from the 

 young of JE. grandifolia. 



Elysia C<erulea. Kel. 



This is a very small beautiful species, about f inch long ; 

 when the wings are folded, it is not thicker than a crow's 

 quill. Tentacles 2 ; blue, with a central red ring, tip blackish. 

 Body and wings blue ; under part of head and fore part of 

 foot red ; edge of wing lined with black and red lines, the 

 latter outermost. 



Found on sea weed, in the Inner Harbour. All three species 

 have the same generic characters, and doubtless belong to the 

 same genus. 



Order. Infero- Branch r ata. 



Genus. Phyllidia. Cuv. 



Animal oblong, covered with a coriaceous tuberculated 

 mantle ; dorsal tentacles clavate, retractile into cavities near 

 the front of the mantle ; mouth with two tentacles ; foot 

 broadly oval. Gills forming a series of lamina extending the 

 entire length of both sides ; excretory orifice in the middle 

 line, near the posterior end of the back, or between the mantle 

 and foot ; reproductive organs on the right side ; stomach 

 simple, membranous. 



Phyllidia Zeylanicus, Kel. 

 Mantle tubercular ; salmon coloured ; three continuous black 



