. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. Pseudocerosfuscoreticulatus, anterior region of body in life (dorsal view). Pseudoceros fuscoreticulatus v. Locality. Low tide, west coast, Inhaca I., Mozambique, July, 1958 (V. Gabie leg.) (holotype). Description (). The single specimen available was, when alive, elongate oval, measuring about 30 mm long and up to 10 mm wide. A water-colour painting of the living worm shows the dorsal surface to have had a light brown ground- colour bearing a reticulum of dark brown. A median band is free of
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. Pseudocerosfuscoreticulatus, anterior region of body in life (dorsal view). Pseudoceros fuscoreticulatus v. Locality. Low tide, west coast, Inhaca I., Mozambique, July, 1958 (V. Gabie leg.) (holotype). Description (). The single specimen available was, when alive, elongate oval, measuring about 30 mm long and up to 10 mm wide. A water-colour painting of the living worm shows the dorsal surface to have had a light brown ground- colour bearing a reticulum of dark brown. A median band is free of reticulation, except for two or three small patches. The areolae of the reticulum are small alongside the median band, but gradually enlarge towards the lateral margins of the body. The periphery of the body bears a thin band of yellow enclosing a band of blue. Marginally, the reticulum tends to end in fingers which overlap the blue band to affect blocks of black regularly disposed along the band. A pair of tentacles appear as mere folds of the anterior margin of the body and bear the blue band of the body. In the preserved condition, the worm has lost coloration and pattern, and its tentacles are not distinct, having been much flattened at fixation. The flattening of the body has disarranged the tentacular eyes, and the cerebral eyes have been broken into a small mass of irregular fragments. Ventral sucker appears as a small depression situated a little anteriorly to middle of body. Initial stages in the development of the copulatory organs are apparent and show a single male complex. Pseudoceros glaucus Locality. Coral reef, west shore, Inhaca L, Mozambique, (V. Gabie leg.); (holotype). Description. A water-colour painting shows the living worm to be about 35 mm long and up to 16 mm wide. Body-margin deeply folded. Dorsal surface of body bluish grey, with black maculae distributed over the body, except in marginal zones. There is als
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