THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 84. DECEMBER 1894. 



L. — Additions to the Cryptozoic Fauna of New Zealand. 

 By Arthur Dendy, D.Sc, Professor of Biology in the 

 Canterbury College, University of New Zealand. 



HAVING for the last six years devoted a considerable amount 

 of time to the study of the cryptozoic * fauna of Australia, 

 and especially of the Land-Planarians, the Neraerfcine Oeone- 

 mertes, and Peripatus, which are so frequently found beneath 

 logs and stones in the Australian bush, I have naturally turned 

 my attention to the same groups of animals since my arrival 

 in New Zealand at the beginning of this year. 



The cryptozoic animals of New Zealand have certainly not 

 received the attention which they deserve, and they still offer 

 an almost untouched and very promising field for investiga- 

 tion to local naturalists. 



The New Zealand Peripatus, indeed (P. novce-zealandice, 

 Hutton), has escaped the general neglect, having been the 

 subject of an important memoir by Captain F. W. Hutton, 

 F.R.S., published in the Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist, for 

 November 1876 ; while Miss Sheldon has since published 

 various observations on its anatomy and development in the 

 Qu. Jour, of Micr. Sci. 



None but the ordinary thirty-legged form has, however, as 

 yet been recorded. In the present paper I shall have to note 



* I proposed this term some years ago for the curious assemblage of 

 animals, commonly found beneath log's and stones and in similar situa- 

 tions (vide 'Victorian Naturalist,' December 1889). 



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