On the Victorian Land Planarians, by Arthur Dendy, M.Sc, F.L.S., Demon- 

 strator AND Assistant Lecturer in Biology and Fellow op Queen's 

 College in the University of Melbourne. 



(With Plate 7.) 

 (Read May 8th, 1890.) 



Introduction. 



The present paper may be regarded as a sequel to my memoir on the Anatomy 

 of an Australian Land Planarian, already published in the Transactions of this 

 Society.* Having fully described, in the memoir referred to, the anatomy of one 

 species, which may be taken as a type of the whole group, it remains to name, 

 briefly describe, and where possible figure the other Victorian species. 



There are, as I have pointed out in my previous memoir, two genera of 

 Australian land Planarians, Geoplana, with many small eyes, and Rhynchodemus, 

 with only two larger ones. Both of these genera are found in Victoria and it would 

 doubtless have been desirable to have described in detail the anatomy of a type from 

 each ; as, however, I have only seen a single specimen of Rhynchodemus, and that 

 only recently, I have been unable as yet to do this. The gap thus caused is, however, 

 to a great extent filled by the researches principally of Moseley and von Kennel, to 

 which frequent reference is made in my earlier paper. 



In their " Notes on Australian Land Planarians, with Descriptions of Some New 

 Species" (Part I.),f Messrs. Fletcher and Hamilton enumerate eighteen Australian 

 and Tasmanian species. Of these, seventeen were found in New South Wales, one 

 in New South Wales and Queensland, one in New South Wales and Victoria, and one 

 in Tasmania only. In the present paper I propose to describe fifteen Victorian 

 species, viz.: 



1. Geoplana ccerulea, Moseley sp. 



2. G. quinqiielineata, Fletcher and Hamilton. 



3. G. niunda, Fletcher and Hamilton. 



4. G. spenceri, Dendy. 



5. G. adcB, n. sp. 



6. G. lucasi, n. sp. 



* Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1889. 



t Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Vol. II. (Series 2), p. 349. 



