transparent pearl oyster (_Placuna placenta_)
The "musical fish" at Ballicaloa
A similar phenomenon at other places
Faculty of uttering sounds in fishes
Instance in the _Tritonia arborescens_
Difficulty in forming a list of Ceylon shells
List of Ceylon shells

II. _Radiata_.--Star fish
Sea slugs
Parasitic worms
Planaria

III. _Acalephae_, abundant
The Portuguese man-of-war
Red infusoria
_Note_ on the _Tritonia arborescens_

CHAP. XII.

INSECTS.

Profusion of insects in Ceylon
Imperfect knowledge of

I. _Coleoptera_.--Beetles
Scavenger beetles
Coco-nut beetles
Tortoise beetles

II. _Orthoptera_.--Mantis and leaf-insects
Stick-insects

III. _Neuroptera_.--Dragon flies
Ant-lion
White ants
Anecdotes of their instinct and ravages

IV. _Hymenoptera_.--Mason wasps
Wasps
Bees
Carpenter Bee
Ants
Burrowing ants

V. _Lepidoptera_.--Butterflies
The spectre
Lycaenidae
Moths
Silk worms
Stinging caterpillars
Wood-carrying moths
Pterophorus

VI. _Homoptera_
Cicada

VII. _Hemiptera_
Bugs

VIII. _Aphaniptera_

IX. _Diptera_.--Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes the "plague of flies"
The coffee bug

General character of Ceylon insects

List of insects in Ceylon

CHAP. XIII.

ARACHNIDAE, MYRIOPODA, CRUSTACAE, ETC.

Spiders
Strange nets of the wood spiders
The mygale
Birds killed by it
_Olios Taprobanius_
The galeodes
Gregarious spiders
Ticks
Mites.--_Trombidium tinctorum_

_Myriapods_.--Centipedes
Cermatia
Scolopendra crassa
S. pollippes
The fish insect

_Millipeds_.--Julus

_Crustacae_
Calling crabs
Sand crabs
Painted crabs
Paddling crabs

_Annelidae_, Leeches.--The land leech
Medicinal leech
Cattle leech

List of Articulata, &c.

_Note_.--On the revivification of the Rotifera and Paste-eels

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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View of an Elephant Corral Frontispiece

Group of Ceylon Monkeys to face 5

The Loris (_Loris gracilis_) 12

Group of Flying Foxes (_Pteropus Edwardsii_) to face 14

Head of the Horse-shoe Bat (_Rhynulophus_) 19

Nycteribia 21

Indian Bear (_Prochylus labiatus_)