. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. AFRICAN TURBELLARIANS. Pseudoceros albicuneatus, dorsal surface of body in life. Note. No specimen available for study. Known only from a water-colour painting of the living worm. The coloration and markings of the dorsal surface of the body are definite and enable the species to be readily recognized. Pseudoceros albimaculatus Locality. Low tide, west coast of Inhaca I., Mozambique, July, 1958 (V .-Gabie leg.) Description (Fig. 18). Oval forms narrowing somewhat anterio
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology. AFRICAN TURBELLARIANS. Pseudoceros albicuneatus, dorsal surface of body in life. Note. No specimen available for study. Known only from a water-colour painting of the living worm. The coloration and markings of the dorsal surface of the body are definite and enable the species to be readily recognized. Pseudoceros albimaculatus Locality. Low tide, west coast of Inhaca I., Mozambique, July, 1958 (V .-Gabie leg.) Description (Fig. 18). Oval forms narrowing somewhat anteriorly and rounded posteriorly; 13-24 mm in length and 8-10 mm in maximum width. Disposition of eyes as shown in Fig. 18. In a water-colour painting of the living worm, the dorsal surface is reddish violet, with transverse marginal patches finely stipled with white and along median line there are elongate patches likewise stipled with white. Marginal tentacles are prominent in the living worm, but retracted beyond recognition in preserved specimens, as shown in Fig. 18. One male pore; penis-papilla with stylet. The male copulatory complex shows no specific differences from that of other species of Pseudoceros, where the complex has been described. m- Fig. 18 Pseudoceros albimaculatus, marginal and cerebral eye-clusters (dorsal view). Pseudoceros albireticulatus LocALrrY. On south barrier reef, 13°04'S. 45°'E., Benthedi, Mayotte, Comoro Is, (P. Bouchet leg.) no. Description. The only specimen available is immature and fragmentary, but the preserved fragments suggest that the worm measured about 5 mm in length. Ventral sucker lies a 77 little anteriorly to middle of body. The marginal tentacles are mere humps, each containing about 16 eyes, with a few eyes between the tentacles. The fragment containing cerebral eyes is missing, but a colour-transparency of the living worm suggests that there is a cluster of about 12 cerebral eyes. The tr
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