182 Transactions. — Zoology. 



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

 specimens of the curious blue-tipped variety of this common 

 Australian species. Although collected in Albert Park, Auck- 

 land, these specimens were indistinguishable from those found 

 in gardens near Melbourne, and they were probably intro- 

 duced to both localities, as well as to Sydney, with plants 

 from some habitat as yet unknown. 



Geoplana purpurea, n. sp. 



When crawling, long and very slender, tapering very gra- 

 dually in front and behind ; dorsal surface strongly convex, 

 ventral not very much flattened; length, about 35mm. ; breadth, 

 2-5mm. When at rest strongly convex dorsally, fairly flat 

 ventrally. No special lateral surfaces are visible under any 

 circumstances. Eyes as usual. 



Ground-colour of dorsal surface rather dark reddish-purple, 

 interrupted only by a very narrow median band of nearly 

 white. 



Anterior tip pinkish. Ventral surface paler purple, under 

 a lens appearing very finely mottled in two shades. (In light- 

 coloured specimens the dorsal surface may exhibit a similar 

 mottling.) 



In spirit the body is nearly oval in section, somewhat 

 flattened beneath ; the peripharyngeal aperture is situate at 

 about the middle or even a little in front of the middle, and 

 the genital aperture at about one-third of the distance from it 

 to the posterior extremity. 



Locality. — Ashburton (coll., Messrs. Maine and Fooks). 



Geoplana inaequalistriata, n. sp. 



When fully extended the single specimen was long and 

 narrow, tapering gradually to each end, flattened ventrally 

 and convex dorsally ; about 66mm. long and 3mm. broad. 

 Eyes minute, but very numerous, arranged as usual in a 

 crowded patch on each side of the head-end, and continued in 

 single series round the extreme tip. 



Dorsal surface dark brownish-grey, with streaks of pale, 

 dull yellow, as follows : A narrow median yellow stripe con- 

 tinues from end to end. On each side of this comes an unin- 

 terrupted band of dark-grey occupying about a quarter of the 

 total width of the dorsal surface. The outer quarter of the 

 width on each side is also of dark-grey ground-colour, but is 

 interrupted by long, narrow, discontinuous, overlapping stripes 

 of pale-yellow. Towards the margins the yellow streaks come 

 to prevail over the grey, and thus appear to form the ground- 

 colour. 



Anterior extremity pink. On the ventral surface the 

 yellow colour predominates, and thus forms the ground-colour, 



