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ADDITIONAL NOTES ON PERIPATUS LEUCKARTI. 

 By J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. 



In the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria for 1889 

 (p. 50) Mr. Dendy gives an account of all the Victorian specimens 

 of P. leuckarti which had up to that time come under his notice, and 

 he summarises all that was known about the species. I propose now 

 to supplement Mr. Dendy's paper by some account of about forty 

 specimens obtained, since I last had occasion to offer any remarks 

 on the subject, from three new localities in New South Wales, viz., 

 Mt. Kosciusko, the Blue Mts., and Dunoon on the Richmond 

 Elver. 



The specimens exhibit some variety in pattern and coloration 

 independent of size or sex (as far as the material goes), but from 

 the constant presence of fifteen pairs of walking legs (the legs of 

 each individual have been counted), the presence of an accessory 

 tooth at the base of the main tooth of the outer blades of the 

 jaws, &c., I can only regard them as referable to one and the same 

 species. 



I also take occasion to record the occurrence of the species in 

 Tasmania, Mr. Masters in looking through the invertebrates in 

 the Macleay Museum having recently found a rather bleached 

 specimen with fifteen pairs of walking legs which must have been 

 in the collection for at least ten years. 



Specimens from Mount Kosciusko. 



Thirty-five (18 (^'s, 17 9's) specimens in the collection of the 

 Australian Museum have been examined. They were obtained 

 by Mr. R. Helms in March, 1889, while on a collecting expedition 

 for the Museum, and were exhibited at the July Meeting of this 



