478 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON PERIPATUS LEUCKARTI, 



at Burrawang [vide P.L.S.N.S.W. III. (2), p. 1560]; in that 

 specimen however the longitudinal striping was not so marked, 

 the median dorsal longitudinal linear dark stripe was nodose as in 

 Illawarra specimens, each enlargement being bordered on either 

 side by a sub-triangular red patch, the outer dark dorsal bands 

 are indicated by a series of patches, the red bands have more 

 dark tint in them (dark-tipped papillae and specks of dark 

 ground colour). 



Specimens from Dunoon, Richmond River. 



During a month's collecting, the weather being more or less 

 unfavourable during greater part of the time, IMr. Helms obtained 

 for me six specimens, of which one disappeared in course of transit. 

 I received three living and two spirit specimens. 



The light coloured antennae of these specimens at once attract 

 attention. The body to the naked eye appears dark brown ; there 

 is a good deal of red (or in some it is rather ochreous) which is 

 chiefly confined to the papillae, but most of the primary papillje 

 now show it (except the apical portion) ; while the blue is intensely 

 daik. The dorsal surface on each side of the median longitudinal 

 linear intensely dark stripe in two of the specimens {$) when alive 

 showed indications of three fairly defined longitudinal stripes, the 

 first one with more dull rusty or ochreous-red in it appearing 

 reddish-brown, then a darker brown band, then again a lighter 

 band like the first, the difierence being due to the prevalence in 

 the lighter bands of papillse with red bases, the red of which some- 

 times invades the ground colour, while in the darker bands there 

 are more wholly dark papillae ; in the third specimen (5) when alive 

 the greater part of the dorsal surface was more uniformly tinted 

 like the dark bands in the other two, though the outer light bands 

 were indicated ; lozenge-shaped patches aie not very well defined 

 apart from the outer lighter band. The outer surface of the legs 

 like the dark portion of dorsal surface. The ventral surface of 

 the body as usual paler than the upper surface, mottled with blue 

 and red but usually the blue predominates in the median line 

 corresponding with the intervals between the consecutive legs, and 



