458 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. VIII, 



Museum of Natural History, South Kensington. Its measure- 

 ments are: length 54 mm,, breadth 8 mm., breadth of the head 

 7 mm., breadth of the neck 4 mm., breadth of ambulacral surface 

 3 mm. The colour dorsally is a velvety bluish black with just a 

 touch of dull brown; the brown is more emphasized anteriorly 

 until on the head the colour is a dirty yellowish brown with 

 touches of rust colour. Ventrally, from the edge, the dorsal 

 colouration passes gradually into a rusty brown, which is then 

 sharply defined from the ambulacral surface ; the flat ambulacral 

 surface is made up of two colours (r) a narrow median deep cream, 

 bordered on each side by (2) a light green band. The dorsal 

 surface is much flatter than the ventral, but I would scarcely say 

 that the edges were sharp. The ambulacral surface is not raised 

 above the general surface, and its extreme anterior end has a pale 

 arrow-head form of light biscuit-brown colour. The under surface 

 of the head is a dark rusty brown. The position of the mouth 

 and genital aperture were not to be made out with certainty. 



Bipalium dclicatum, n. sp. 

 (Plate xxix, figs. 7 and 8.) 



Two specimens from Rotung, at an altitude of 1300 ft., have 

 been included under this name, the form and colour pattern of 

 which are similar; the general colour, however, is markedly 

 different, one being light brown and the other a very dark brown. 

 Both specimens were found under stones 



The light coloured specimen attains a length of 55 mm., a 

 breadth of 5 mm. and a thickness of 3 mm. The head, which 

 appears a little damaged, is semicircular in form and is not a great 

 deal wider than the trunk. The mouth is placed 30 mm. from the 

 anterior end, and the genital aperture 19 mm. behind the mouth. 

 The ground colouration of the dorsal surface is light brown with 

 a median band of a much paler colour extending nearly the whole 

 length of the animal, and not well defined at the edges; this 

 median stripe expands somewhat on the head and loses itself 

 gradually in the general colour of the head (see fig. 7). The 

 ventral surface is pale and about the same shade as the dorsal 

 median band. 



The dark specimen measures 39 mm. long and 4 mm. broad ; 

 the mouth is situated 15 mm. and the genital aperture 35 mm. from 

 the anterior end. Except for two apparently'' bleached patches, 

 the whole of the ventral surface is of the same colour as the 

 dorsal. The eyes are distributed indiscriminately round the head, 

 and are continued for a very considerable distance along the sides 

 of the body, approaching half the animal's length. At the sides 

 of the neck they form a well-marked patch. The paler specimen 

 appears to have been dead some time before being preserved, and 

 consequently, except at the neck, the eyes have been removed 

 along with the rather disintegrated outer tissues. 



