Dendy. — On Neic Zealand Land Planarians. 183 



which is streaked with abundant, irregular, discontinuous, 

 narrow, close-set stripes of dark-brown. A very narrow band 

 of ground-colour at each edge of the ventral surface is free 

 from the dark streaks. 



In spirit the dorsal surface is pretty strongly convex, and 

 the ventral nearly flat ; the peripharyngeal aperture is a little 

 behind the middle, and the genital aperture about one-third 

 of the distance from it to the posterior extremity. 



Locality. — St. Albans Road, Christchurch. (One specimen 

 found on asphalt path in garden ; coll., author.) 



Geoplana sulphurea, Fletcher and Hamilton, var. 



Geoplana sulphureus, Fletcher and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.W., ser. ii., vol. 2, p. 365 (1887). 



Body, when crawling, very long and narrow, strongly con- 

 vex on the dorsal surface, but capable of being much flattened 

 when contracted. Eyes as usual (? round extreme tip), but in 

 nearly or quite single series. The larger of two specimens 

 was about 45mm. long and 2mm. broad when crawling. 



Ground-colour of dorsal surface fairly bright, clear yellow r , 

 interrupted by four stripes of dark-brown. The inner stripes 

 are very narrow, enclosing a very narrow median band of 

 ground-colour. The outer ones are twice or thrice as broad, 

 each lying about midway between the inner stripe of the same 

 side and the lateral margin. Minute specks of brown are 

 scattered over the ground-colour between the inner and outer 

 stripes. Anterior tip dull pinkish-brown, ventral surface pale- 

 yellow. 



In spirit the body is long and narrow, nearly oval in sec- 

 tion. One aperture was nearly central, the other was not seen. 



This variety differs from the New South Wales specimens 

 of G. sulphurea only in the presence of the brown speckles 

 mentioned above. 



Locality. — Albert Park, Auckland (coll., T. Steel, Esq.). 



Geoplana splendens, n. sp. 



When at rest, very broad and flat. When crawling, con- 

 vex above and flat beneath, tapering very gradually at both 

 extremities. Eyes very numerous at the sides of the head- 

 end (extreme anterior tip of the single specimen injured). 

 Length, when crawling, 41mm. ; breadth, 4mm. Dorsal surface 

 marked with three longitudinal stripes of emerald-green alter- 

 nating with four stripes of dark, warm brown ; with very 

 narrow, pale-grey margins. The green stripes are rather 

 narrower than the brown, and each is made up of an immense 

 number of minute, brilliant metallic-green specks set in the 

 dark-brown background. Ventral surface pale purplish-grey, 

 without stripes. 



