104 



AUSTRALIAN LAND PLANARIANS : DESCRIPTIONS 

 OF NEW SPECIES AND NOTES ON COLLECTING 

 AND PRESERVING. 



By Thos. Steel, F.L.S., F.C.S. 



(Plates VI. -VII. figs. 5-8 and 10.) 



Part i. Descriptions of new species, &c. 



In 1887 Messrs. Fletchei' and Hamilton contributed to this 

 Society a valuable paper embodying their notes and observations 

 on Land Planarians.* Since then the only further work of any 

 note published in New South Wales is a paper by Professor 

 Dendy on a collection made by me on the Blue Mountains.! 



In Victoria Professor Spencer and Dr. (now Professor) Dendy, 

 particularly the latter, have done excellent work in publishing 

 descriptions with beautiful coloured plates, of the species found 

 in that colony. J Dr. Dendy has also described some species from 

 Tasmania and South Australia.§ Quite recently Prof. Dendy 

 has published preliminary descriptions of New Zealand species.]] 

 During the last few years I have been able to collect many species 

 of our New South Wales planarians, as well as of those occurring 

 in Victoria, and through the kindness of friends have received 

 others from parts of the colony which I have not visited, as well 

 as from Southern Queensland. Amongst these are a number of 

 undescribed species, descriptions and figui'es of which I now 

 desire to record in our Proceedings. 



* P.L.S.KS.W. (2 Ser.) Vol. ii. 349. 

 t Loc. cit. Vol. ix. 729. 

 + Trans. & Proc. R. S. Vict. 18S9 to 1893. 

 § Proc. R. S. Viet. 1893, p. 178, and Proc. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science 

 1892, p. 369, and 1893, p. 420. 



II Trans. New Zealand Inst, xxvii. 177, and xxviii. 210 ; also Annals and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (Ser. 6) Vol. xiv. .393. 



