54 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



On October 31, 1888, the same author exhibited some 

 yoimg specimens, the progeny of one of the three exhibited 

 at the last meeting. The size and colouration of these young 

 specimens (four in number) is briefly noted. 



On November 28, 1888, again, Mr. Fletcher exhibited at 

 the same Society's meeting two living specimens oi Feripatus 

 leuckartii from Burrawang, County of Camden, and their 

 general colouiation is briefly noted. 



Peripatus leuckartii was next met with again by myself 

 in Victoria ; from which colony, it will be remembered, it was 

 hitherto represented only by a single dried-up specimen 

 from Gippsland. In December last, I found two specimens 

 in a fern-tree gully at Warburton, on the Upper Yarra ; and 

 I recorded the discovery, with a brief account of the speci- 

 mens, in the Victorian Naturalist and Nature {locc. citt). 

 Owing to the very distinct and definite markings on both 

 of my specimens, I thought that they would probably 

 prove to belong to a species distinct f]om P. leuckartii. 

 Subsequent research, however, has shown that this is not 

 the case. 



Finally, the latest literature on the subject is a short 

 letter in Nature, by Mr. A. Sedgwick, F.R.S., in reply to my 

 own, in which he says : — " The Victorian and New South 

 Wales localities are recorded in a postscript appended to my 

 monograph of the genus as reprinted from vol. iv. of the 

 " Studies from the Morphological Laboiatory of the 



University of Cambridge." The New South 



Wales species is, I think, identical with that found in Queens- 

 land, and I should be inclined to doubt the distinctness of the 

 Victorian species recorded by Mr. Dendy in Nature (p. 366), 

 and previously by Mr. Fletcher. Mr. Dendy appears to lay 

 some stresson the diflerencesof colour as between his specimen 

 and the specimens of P. leuckarti hitherto described, but it 

 must be remembered that in some species of Peripatus — e.g. 

 capensis and novce-zealandia' — the range of individual 

 colour-variation is very considerable." Mr. Sedgwick 

 concludes — " Its development cannot fail to be of the greatest 

 interest, and it is sincerely to be hoped that the Australian 

 zoologists will lose no time in working it out." 



In the present paper, as already mentioned, I have to 

 record the discovery of eleven more specimens of Peripatus 

 in Victoria, obtained by Messrs. Nye and Avery (of Queen's 

 College), at Brown Hill, near Ballarat. The examination of 

 these specimens leaves no doubt as to tlie correctness of 



