Notes on some Victorian Land Planarians. 89 



most active and rapid in its movements of any planarian 

 which I have yet seen. 



G. sulphureus, Fletcher and Hamilton (Fif,^ 14). — This 

 form has nntbrtunately not been figured by Mcssis. Fletcher 

 and Hamilton, but the description given by them of the 

 colour, and the disposition of the bands, agrees so closely 

 with this form, that it has been thought best to refer it to their 

 species. They describe it as follows: — "Ground colour above 

 and below of a uniformly bright gamboge yellow. In the 

 median dorsal line, a narrow band of ground colour, bordered 

 on either side by a dark reddish-brown line, as wide as the 

 median stripe; external to each of them is a band of ground 

 colour, as wide as the median stripe and its two dark 

 bounding lines taken together ; beyond which again, on 

 either side, is an intensely black band, about as wide as the 

 stripe of ground colour, which it bounds externally; the 

 bands become more or less confluent just at the posterior 

 extremity, while just anteriorly, they are obscured by the 

 orange-red tint which colours the anterior extremity." 



The specimen* secured b}^ us, agrees (Fig. T-t) closely with 

 this descri[)tion, the outer dark bands being of a dark 

 Vandyke brown colour rather than black, and not so wide as 

 tho.se described -above, and the ventral surface being 

 somewhat lighter in colour than the dorsal. 



This form, in all probability, comes near to G. hogii, as 

 described by Mr. Dendy, but the absence of the broad 

 greenish or gre3ash stripe, characteristic of the latter (typical 

 examples of which we also found), serves to distinguish the 

 two species. 



It has not previously been recorded from Victoria, and 

 now makes a total of four species known to be common to 

 the two colonies. 



Localities.— Mt. Wilson, Hartley Vale (N.S.W.) ; ridge 

 between Thompson and Yarra Rivers (Victoria). 



Geoplana munclaf, Fletcher and Hamilton (Fig. 10). — 

 This has been described by Messrs. Fletcher and Hamilton. 

 The description which they give of its colours, does not 

 exactly tally with the drawing (Fig. 8) given by them, and 



* Since this specimen was described, my assistant, Mr. Maun, has secured 

 two others from another locality, corresponding exactly in colour markings. 



t Since the above was written, Mr. Dendy has described a large colonj' of 

 this form, which he found under a log on the Dandenong Eangcs, Victoria. 

 Ht> secured no less than fifty specimens from under this one log, all agreeing 

 closely in colour markings. 



