210 Transactions. — Zoology. 



apical ray, however, is very slender, and sharply pointed : it is 

 slightly curved. Basal ravs, 0-14:mm. x O'Olmm. ; apical ray, 

 0-rimni.x0 008mni. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES IIL AND IV. 



Plate III. 



Leucosolenia rosea. 



a-c, spicules of pseudoderm. 



d, e, regular 3-radiates of parenchyma. « 



/, g, sagittal 3-radiates. 



h-k, arrested or abnormal spicules. 



l-n, 4-radiates (a.}". = apical ray). 



Plate IV. 

 Leucosolenia laxa. 

 la-lc, oxea of pseudoderm. 

 Id-lf, 3-radiales. 

 Ig-li, 4-radiates (a.r. = apical ray). 



Leucosolenia intermedia. 

 2a, large regular radiate of pseudoderm. 



26-2/, pseudodermal " tripod " spicules viewed at different angles. 

 2g-2h, „ „ „ in profile. 



2i-2j, 3-radiates of parenchyma. 



Art. XXII. — Notes on New Zealand Land Planarians : 



Part II:'-- 



By Arthur Dendy, D.Sc, F.L.S., Professor of Biology in 

 the Canterbury College, University of New Zealand. 



[Eead before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 3rd July, 1S95.] 



The present contribution to our knowledge of the land plan- 

 arians of New Zealand deals exclusively with a number of 

 specimens collected during a month's stay at Springburn, at 

 the foot of Mount Somers, in November and the early part of 

 December of last year (1894). In the immediate vicinity of 

 the thick bush-scrub of the Alford Forest the locality ap- 

 peared a good hunting-ground for cryptozoic animals, and 

 experience showed that this was indeed the case. The 

 very luxuriance of the vegetation, however, with its unlimited 

 hiding-places for cryptozoic animals, made the task of collec- 

 tion more difficult than it would have been in a clearer neigh- 

 bourhood, where the animals are concentrated, as it were, in 

 a comparatively few spots. 



* For Part I. see Trans. N.Z, Inst., vol. xxvii., art. xvii. 



