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glasses pressed down on earth in llower-pots, from which at night- 

 time they invariably escaped without difficulty by burrowing. 



The situations in which we have found them are various. On the 

 Blue Mts., at Mt. Wilson (3,400 ft. above the sea), as well as near 

 Guntawang, we have found them on the tops of ridges, on the 

 slopes leading down to gullies, and in the gullies ; on the banks 

 of the Cudgegong River, and on the edges of swamps ; fi^equently 

 on the edges of clearings, on lightly timbered land, or in scrub 

 land ; but we do not know yet whether they live in the thick 

 brushes, where if they do occur the sheathing fronds of ferns like 

 Plaiij cerium, or Asplenium nidus might furnish them with I'esting 

 places. On the summits and slopes of the ridges and in the more 

 open gullies where there is no vegetation of this sort but only 

 the ordinary forest trees and scrub, they seem to adopt them- 

 selves to circumstances and manage very well without it. 



Some of the species are pretty widely distributed, one extending 

 to Queensland and another to Victoria ; others as far as we know 

 at present are very local. We have not had them from further 

 inland than the Mudgee district on the other side of the Dividing 

 Range, and we should be glad to know if they are to be found in 

 the interior. From the County of Cumberland we have obtained 

 specimens belonging to six species, all occurring elsewhere ; from 

 Springwood six species, of which one G. ruhicunda has not been 

 found by iis elsewhere, but there are some examples of it in the 

 material given us by Mr. Masters ; from Hartley Yale six species, 

 three of which are local ; from Mt. Wilson six species of which 

 one has been found nowhere else ; and in the Mudgee district 

 seven species of which three ai'e local. Individually, except in 

 favoured localities or under very favourable circumstances, plana- 

 rians cannot be said to be very abundant, and it usually involves 

 a considerable expenditure of time and trouble to obtain many 

 specimens. Nevertheless, in the Mudgee district one of us 

 believes that he could sometimes have obtained a hundred speci- 

 mens without much trouble. Elsewhere however, we have had to 

 be content with a dozen specimens for a day's work. But, as a 



