622 TASMANIA?* LAND PLANARIANS, 



Early in September, 1899, an individual of this species which 

 Mr. Dove collected at Table Cape, deposited an egg-capsule, which, 

 together with the planarian, he sent on to me. The box contain- 

 ing the specimens was some 8 days in transit, during which time 

 the capsule hatched. I found two young, together with the adult, 

 in a living and healthy state. The following is a description of 

 the young : — Dorsal surface dark purplish-brown, with stipplings 

 resembling those of the adult. One specimen was 11 and the 

 other 10 mm. in length. The latter has the median dorsal space 

 almost free from pigment, forming a pale brown band with only 

 a few scattered brown specklings, and no indication of the black 

 median line. In the longer specimen this pale space is very 

 faintly indicated, the pigmentation being nearly uniform all over, 

 and the black line is plainly visible exactly as in the adult, 

 extending for about half-way from anterior tip. 



Ventral surface in both thickly speckled with brown spots 

 which have a tendency to crowd into the median space and 

 towards the margins, and thus to form three longitudinal bands 

 with less speckled space between. 



When alive the cross section of these young was exceedingly 

 angular, the back being raised in the form of an acute longitudi- 

 nal ridge, giving the little creatures a very slug-like aspect, but 

 otherwise the shape resembled that of the adult. Eyes very large 

 and distinct round anterior tip, and, as in the adult, in a single row 

 without any grouping for a little way down the sides. The eyes 

 at the tip are smallest, and they increase in size down the sides 

 until the last ones have 4 or 5 times the area of those on the tip. 



A third single young one hatched during transit, from a capsule 

 subsequently sent me by Mr. Dove, is 12 mm. in length, and 

 closely resembles in markings the shorter of the two above, but 

 is quite as darkly pigmented as the adult. In this specimen the 

 peripharyngeal aperture is 8 mm. from the anterior tip, genital 

 opening not visible. The first capsule was despatched to me by 

 Mr. Dove on 13th September, and the other on 2nd October, 1899. 

 The former was laid during the night between the 12th and 13th 

 September, and as the box containing it reached me with the 



