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Young specimens on emerging from the cocoon are 2*5 to 4 mm. 

 long. In these and sometimes in larger ones the colour of the 

 anterior portion of the body is more intense. In very young 

 specimens also the lines are brighter, but the outermost one on 

 each side is only faintly indicated, or absent. 



Hob. — Near Parramatta, near Springwood, near Capertee, 

 Guntawang, Beaudesert Hills, Biraganbil Hills, N.S.W. ; Sand- 

 hurst, Victoria. 



This is one of our commonest species, and notwithstanding the 

 variations in the tints it is easily recognised by the five linear 

 stripes. At present we are unable to distinguish varieties, or 

 more than one species by definable characters, but when we have 

 been able more systematically to compare adults and young ones 

 from various localities it may be possible to do so. For three 

 Victoria specimens we are indebted to Mr. Froggatt. They 

 resemble some of our N.S. Wales examples in having the ground 

 colour rather dark both above and below, and in having the 

 median line as broad as the others, and more intensely coloured, 

 almost black. 



8. Geoplana viridis, n. sp. 



(Plate V, figs. 6, 13, 14). 



Ground colour below pale greenish-yellow or in some specimens 

 pinkish ; above bright grass-green. In the mesial line of the dorsal 

 surface is a fairly broad band of ground colour bounded on either 

 side by a fine line of bright burnt sienna ; external to which on 

 either side is another band of ground colour about of equal width 

 with the mesial band ; beyond each of these again another sienna 

 line sometimes consisting of separate dots of pigment, so that 

 these lines as compared with the inner ones are not so intense in 

 colour or are even broken ; external to each of them is another band 

 of ground colour extending outwards to the lateral margin of the 

 body, slightly narrower than the median band. The lines converge 

 slightly towards the centre, and those of each side become confluent 

 just at the anterior extremity, and of a slightly brighter colour, and 



