Dendy. — On Neic Zealand Land Planarians. 189 



width ; then, just above the junction of dorsal and ventral 

 surfaces, a rather narrow, ill-defined stripe of moderately dark 

 green, followed by another narrow band of ground-colour. 

 When viewed from above the first-mentioned pair of dark- 

 green stripes appear almost marginal, the others being more 

 lateral than dorsal. 



The ventral surface is pale yellowish-green, darkening at 

 the margins to form yet another pair of ill-defined stripes 

 bounding the creeping-sole. 



In spirit the body is approximately oval in transverse sec- 

 tion, and the creeping-sole occupies little more than half the 

 breadth of the ventral aspect. The body is broader in front 

 than behind, and tapers off gradually to the posterior end, 

 which has been broken off short. Both apertures are well 

 forward — the peripharyngeal at about the junction of the 

 anterior and middle thirds, the genital nearly in the middle 

 of the body. The specimen appears, however, to have con- 

 tracted rather unequally, and, as already mentioned, the 

 posterior extremity is injured. In spirit it measures 28mm. 

 in length and 3mm. in greatest breadth. 



Locality. — Nelson (in the bush ; coll., R. I. Kingsley, Esq.). 



Rhynchodemus moseleyi, Fletcher and Hamilton. 



Rhynchod&mus moseleyi, Fletcher and Hamilton, Proc. 

 "Linn. Soc. N.S.W., ser. ii., vol. ii., p. 371 (1887). 



In November, 1892, I received from Mr. T. Steel four 

 specimens of a small Rhynchodemus which I identify with this 

 species. They were about 21mm. long when crawling. The 

 dorsal surface was black to the naked eye, but appeared 

 minutely speckled with white under a lens, and some speci- 

 mens showed a darker median line. The ventral surface was 

 white, or slightly speckled. They were collected in Albert 

 Park, Auckland, and have quite possibly been introduced from 

 Australia. 



Bipalium kewense, Moseley. 



Bipalium keivense, Moseley, Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History, ser. 5, vol. i., p. 237 (1878). 



This species, which has been so widely distributed by the 

 unintentional agency of man, and whose natural habitat is still 

 unknown, was also obtained by Mr. T. Steel in Albert Park, 

 Auckland. 



