ON THE OVirAROUS Sl'ECIES OF OXTCHOrEOKA. 399 



referred to them as such in earlier publications, being 

 misled partly by the very dark colour, aud partly by the 

 fact that the chorion was incompletely developed, the 

 specimens being collected very early in the season (October) ; 

 but the ovipositor in my specimen is very conspicuous and 

 fully protruded to a length of 4 mm. (fig, 10), the specimeii 

 (if I remember rightly) having been killed by drowning, 

 while microscopic investigation of the eggs showed the chorion 

 to be really present although incomplete (figs. 18, 19). 



The specific distinction between the males of 0. oviparus 

 and P. Leuckartii is a matter of much greater difficulty, 

 and as yet I fail to see how they can be distinguished 

 otherwise than by the company in which they are found. As 

 the females differ, so far as we know at present, only in the 

 structure of the reproductiv^e organs, this is not surprisiug. 



Localities. 



Victoria. — Warragul (coll. Baker, probably this species) 

 Warburton (coll. Dendy) ; Ballarat (coll. Nye and Avery) ; 

 Macedon (coll. Hogg and Dendy) ; Mount Baw Baw (coll. 

 Frost); Walhalla (coll. Hogg); Pyalong (coll. Lucas, male 

 only) . 



New South Wales. — Mount Kosciusko (coll. Helms) ; 

 Moss Vale District (coll. Steel). 



Queensland. — Cooran (coll. Spencer). 



2. Ooperipatus viridimaculat us, Dendy. (Figs. 2, 



27—33.) 



Synonymy. 



1 900 . P e r i p a t u s V i r i d i m a c u 1 a t u s, Dendy. ' Natu re,' vol . 



Ixi, p. 444; 'Trans, and Proc. N. Z. Inst.,' vol. xxxii, 



p. 436. 

 1900. ?Perip atus viridimaculatus (probably), Fletcher. 



'Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.^Y.,' vol. xxv, p. 116. 

 1900. Ooperipatus viridimaculatus, Dendy. ' Zoolo- 



gischer Anzeiger,' xxiii, p. 510. 



