114 AUSTRALIAN LAND PLANARIANS 



This beautiful little planarian in general appearance resembles 

 small specimens of G. elegatis, but is at once distinguished by the 

 dorso-median narrow brown line and by the spotted nature of the 

 markings on the ventral surface. It appears to be the smallest 

 Australian land planarian yet described, the next smallest being 

 G. minor, Dendy,* fi'om Burnett River and Cooran, Queensland, 

 the length of which is given by Dr. Dendy as 18 mm., while the 

 present species is just 15 mm., both measurements being of spirit 

 specimens. 



G. parva is apparently a scarce species, as only two individuals, 

 both of the same dimensions, were found by the collector — Mr. 

 John S. Steel — after a prolonged search. 



Rhynchodemus guttatcs, F. ife H. 



Rhynchodemus guttatus, Fletcher and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.W. (Ser. 2), Vol. ii. p. 373; Rhynchodemus VictoriiK, 

 var. Steelii, Dendy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (Ser. 2), Vol. 

 ix. p. 733. 



Mr. Dendy named this variety from specimens collected by the 

 writer on the Blue Mountains, N.S.W. Through the courtesy of 

 Mr Fletcher, I have been able to compare some of the specimens 

 with which I supplied Dr. Dendy with the original types of 

 Messrs. Fletcher and Hamilton; and Mr. Fletcher and myself are 

 agreed that they are identical. Such being the case, I have 

 thought it well to take the first opportunity of recording this 

 correction. When Messrs. Fletcher and Hamilton described the 

 species, curiously enough the two specimens which they had 

 chanced to be what appears to be a somewhat uncommon form, 

 having spots on the ventral surface. Since then these gentlemen 

 have got a number of further specimens, and I also have collected 

 a good series from the Blue Mountains and Bundanoon, N.S.W. ; 

 and from an examination of all these it is evident that they are 

 one and the same species, which was originally described as R. 

 guttatus, F. and H. The spots in the first specimens are evidently 



* Proc. R. S. Vict. 1892, p. 125. 



