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JOURNAL R. A. H. (CEYLON.) 



[Vol. IIL 



Animal of a lighter green colour. Tentacles dark-brown, 

 spotted white. Back whitish -green, dotted with black and 

 green, and spotted like the back. 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 E. c/randifolia, 



Elysia ccerulea. 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 reel 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. Infebobbanchiata. 

 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 

 lines run round the whole length. The internal one broader, 



