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Show 1906.] ON THE NUDIBRANCHS OF SOUTHERN INDIA AND CEYLON. 999 which may be appropriately named Ursus malayanus toardi, the figured skull being taken as the type. [Since this paper was read I have received from the Director of the Bergen Museum some notes 011 the Bruang purchased from Rowland Ward Ltd., together with a photograph of the specimen. The skin and hair are wholly black, with the exception of the nose, which is ferruginous, the chin, which is greyish white, and the cream-coloured gorget. Although the head is shorter, the general appearance of the animal seems very like that of U. torquatus, the ears being much larger than in U. malayanus. In fact, had I not been assured by Rowland Ward Ltd. that both skin and skull came together, I should have thought that a skull of the last-named species had been mounted in a skin of the former. As it is, I hesitate to draw any further conclusions with regard to the distinctness of the Tibetan Bruang from the characters of the skin.] 6. On the Nudibranchs of Southern India and Ceylon, with special reference to the Drawings by Kelaart and the Collections belonging to Alder and Hancock preserved in the Hancock Museum at Newcastle-on-Tyne.-■ No. II. By Sir C h a r l e s E l i o t , K .C .M .G ., F.Z.S. [Received December 11, 1906.] Subsequently to the publication of my paper on the Nudi-branchs of Southern India and Ceylon, which appeared in the Society's 4 Proceedings' (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1906, pp. 636-691), the authorities of the Hancock Museum at Newcastle-on-Tyne were fortunate enough to discover a considerable collection of microscopic slides belonging to Alder and Hancock, and most courteously placed the same at my disposal for examination. The objects preserved are almost entirely the buccal organs of nudibrancli. from various parts of the world, and I have lost no time in examining such of them as concern the Indian and Cingalese nudibranchs mentioned in my previous paper. It is a pity that it should have been published before the radula? were discovered, but the results indicated in it are not materially affected, though several of the identifications are confirmed. The present notes should be regarded as a supplement to it. The same abbreviations are used, and references are not repeated except where it seems necessary. Some of the slides bear full names, but others inscriptions like Doris 113, or a simple number. In most cases it is possible to give the name with certainty, for the number refers to the bottle in which the specimen is preserved. Thus Doris 113 corresponds to the bottle marked " No. 113. Doris formosa- Madras, Walter Elliot, Esq?' No notice has been taken of those P roc, Z ool. Soc.-1906, No. LXVI. 66 |
