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like the ventral surface ; about the head there is a marked pre- 

 dominance of blue papillae ; about the caudal extremity there is 

 an admixture of red ones with blue ones. Antennae dark blue 

 without any red. 



One specimen (9) alive and at rest about 20 mm.; crawling 

 about 30; after drowning 28 mm. 



(b) A red specimen longitudinally striped with very dark blue. 

 AntennEB to the naked eye appear nearly uniformly dark, but 

 with much very iuconspicuous red on the riags except the distal 

 ones. A median linear longitudinal very dark, almost black, stripe 

 visible to the naked eye ; the rest of the dorsal surface on each 

 side of this line divided into three longitudinal bands, of which 

 two are brick red, these being separated by an intervening imperfect 

 dark band ; the general pattern is thus veiy similar to that of 

 group (d) from Mt. Kosciusko, but with the outer dorsal dark 

 band on each side not so well defined and more incomplete ; in the 

 red bands the papillae are with few exceptions entirely red with 

 here and there a patch of dark ground colour ; in the dark bands 

 many of them have their bases red, and more and larger patches 

 of ground colour are dark rendering the bands somewhat diflfuse 

 and patchy ; in the intervals between the bases of the legs of each 

 side as on the outer surface of the legs there is again red mixed 

 with darker papillae and patches of ground colour, but with red 

 predominant, in this respect differing from the longitudinally 

 striped Mt. Kosciusko examples, in which on the legs externally 

 blue is predominant. Undersurface paler than dorsal surface ; 

 chiefly red, with a few dark papillae and specks or patches of 

 similar ground colour ; about the head there are more dark papillte 

 than elsewhere. 



One specimen (9) alive and at rest 15 mm. ; crawling about 

 21 mm. ; after drowning about 33 mm. 



In this specimen we get a maximum of red not only in regard 

 to the papillae but also the ground colour. It agrees in many 

 respects with the redder of two specimens obtained in Nov., 1888, 



