476 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON PERIPATUS LEUCKARTI, 



the other by myself under a log by the road-side near Went- 

 worth Falls. These are the first specimens recorded from the 

 Blue Mts., though several of us for some years have been on the 

 look out for it. I have myself on previous occasions looked within 

 a few feet of the exact spot on which I found my specimen which 

 was the only one I could find after prolonged and careful search, 

 and Mr. Hamilton fared no better. The bush fires prevalent 

 during the dry season of 1888-89 have doubtless not dimiuished 

 the difliculty of finding specimens, 



(a) A very dark specimen, to the naked eye when alive almost 

 dull black, but in a good light a median dorsal longitudinal linear 

 intensely dark stripe, and scattered light coloured papillae, more 

 particularly light blue ones were visible. Under the microscope 

 or lens there are visible intensely dark blue pa})ilhe so dark as to 

 be almost black, dark papilliB with the basal portion red, pale blue 

 papillae with sometimes the basal portion red, and dull brick or 

 rusty red papillse, variously arranged on a dark background, lighter 

 than the darkest blue papilla? and not or only slightly invaded by 

 red : the light blue papillse occur in two single rows on each side 

 of the dorsal mid-line corresponding with the outer row of each of 

 the two dorsal zig-zag rows in the first three groups of the Mt. 

 Kosciusko specimens, and in two lateral rows rather close together 

 above the bases of the legs ; the papillae of each of these rows are 

 closer together than in the case of the dorsal rows, and they are not 

 so straight as the latter ; with a few red papillae they are all 

 that represent the third or dorso-lateral row, and the lozenge-shaped 

 patches above the intervals between the bases of the legs ; on the 

 alternate ridges are some secondary red papillse, but there is little 

 or no red in the ground colour. On the legs the first ridge shows 

 a good deal of red, but the rest of the outer surface exhibits dark 

 papillse with fewer red papillae on a dark ground colour. The 

 undei'surface to the naked eye is as usual much paler ; the majority 

 of primary papillse are wholly red, of the smaller ones blue, the 

 ground colour blue, the general efiect produced being mottled but 

 without any definite pattern ; the inner surface of the legs much 



