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cimens of potatoes from Colo Vale, attacked by white ants [Termes sp.) while 

 Iq the ground before being dug up. — Mr. Steel exhibited a fine collection 

 of well-preserved and displayed Land Planarians, representing the species 

 described in his paper, and illustrating the modes of preservation and the 

 results after the use of the various preservative media advocated therein. — 



Mr. Steel, Note on Peripatus. 



''I desire to place on record the occurrence in New South Wales of P. 

 oiiparus, Dendy, the Victorian form of Peripatus. While collecting in 

 January of this year, between Exeter and Bundanoon (Moss Vale District), 

 on turning over a log I noticed a Peripatus Avhich from its attitude and 

 general appearance specially attracted my attention. This proved to be [a 

 female specimen of the above species, and, so far as I am aware, this is 

 the first occasion on which its occurrence in this colony has been definitely 

 recorded. The lozenge -shaped pattern which characterises most of the 

 specimens found in Victoria is well displayed; and the fact of the ovipo- 

 sitor being fully extruded in the specimen, which I now exhibit, is sufficient 

 guarantee of its identity. When visiting the Australian Museum a few 

 days ago I had an opportunity of examining the specimens of Peripatus 

 preserved there, and I was interested in noticing that those collected by Mr. 

 Helms in 1889 at Mt. Kosciusko belong to the same species. All of the 

 females in the Museum collection from that locality, which I examined, have 

 the ovipositor plainly visible, and in many of them it is fully extruded." 



4. Biologische Anstalt auf Helgoland. 



In der Anstalt stehen statt der früheren vier von diesem Jahre an 

 gleichzeitig sieben Arbeitsplätze für Zoologen und Botaniker zur Ver- 

 fügung. Ich bitte die Herren Fachgenossen, die einen dieser Arbeits- 

 plätze zu benutzen wünschen, sich möglichst bald an mich zu wenden. 

 Die Benutzung der Arbeitsplätze ist im Allgemeinen bis auf eine ge- 

 ringe Abgabe an den Bibliotheksfonds kostenlos. 

 Helgoland, den 1. Juni 1897. 



Der Director der Biologischen Anstalt 

 Heincke. 



Druck von Breitkopf S: Härtel io Leipzig. 



