364 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN LAND-PLANARIANS, 



blend. The immediate anterior extremity of the animal is of a 

 bright burnt sienna colour, darker towards the tip. Leugth of 

 largest specimen when living and crawling, 16 cm. ; breadth, 4 mm.; 

 length of smaller specimen when crawling, 12-5 cm." (Moseley). 



Hob. — Parramatta and Camden {Moseley), Seven Hills, Hunter 

 River, Hartley Vale, Mullamuddy near Mudgee. 



Mr. Moseley says of his specimens " under dead logs, and on 

 bark of Eucalypts." We have had specimens both larger and 

 smaller than those mentioned above ; the largest 20 cm. long, 

 when living and extended. 



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5. Geoplana variegata, n. sp. 



(Plate V, figs. 3 and 3'). 



Undersurface white or cream-coloured in the centre, changing 

 to greenish-yellow at the margins. In the median line of the 

 dorsal surface is a very narrow linear longitudinal stripe of pale 

 yellow or greenish-yellow, bordered on either side by a slightly 

 wider but still narrow linear stripe of dark brown or greenish- 

 brown, its inner margin the straighter and better defined ; 

 external to each of which again is a stripe of pale or greenish- 

 yellow, twice or three times the width of the median one j these 

 in turn are each bounded externally by a very bi-oad band 

 extending outwards nearly to the lateral margin of the body, 

 which baud consists of an inner very dark and well-defined portion 

 in width about i- of the whole, an outer marginal portion well 

 defined but less intensely coloured, and an intermediate portion 

 consisting of numberless fine irregular wavy lines and streaks, 

 with blotches and patches of the yellowish ground colour shewing 

 through ; beyond each of the broad bands is a narrow band of 

 pale or greenish yellow. The median stripe, except for a short 

 anterior portion where its bounding lines fuse, is very well defined 

 throughout ; its bordering dai'k lines are lost quite anteriorly in 

 the red or bright sienna colour of the extreme tip, while just 

 posteriorly they become confluent with the corresponding dark 

 bands. 



