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of other foi*ms of life common to Tasmania and the continent. 

 Those described by Dr. Dendy from Victoria measured, after 

 preservation in spirits, about eleven millimetres in length, and 

 one millimetre in greatest breadth. Of the Tasmanian form (killed 

 by drowning and subsequent preservation in spirit), three of the 

 largest measure, respectively, twenty-three, seventeen and fifteen 

 millimetres in length (exclusive of tentacles), and four, three, 

 and three millimetres in breadth, whilst the smaller ones, 

 evidently immature, measure eleven millimetres in length, and 

 one millimetre in breadth. 



It is again worthy of note that just as in the case of many 

 other forms so in that of Peripatus we find an alliance between 

 the S.E. part of Australia and Tasmania. 



I may add that in the same localities — St. Clair, Dee Bridge, 

 and Parattah, I also found considerable numbers of the land 

 Nemertine — Geonemertes australiensis — of which only one speci- 

 men ha,s hitherto been recorded from Tasmania. 



