400 On tie CryjAozoic Fauna of New Zealand. 



16. Bipalium kewense, Moseley. 



Bipalivm kewense, Moselev, Ann. & 3Iag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i, 

 p. 238. 



This widely distributed Land-PIanarian was also found at 

 Albeit Park, Auckland, bj Mr. Steel. 



[Captain Hutton informs me that the record of Bipalium 

 in his essay on the New Zealand fauna "^ was based upon a 

 mistake for which he is not responsible.] 



Observations on a neio Land-Nemertine. 



Geonemertes novce-zealandice is at present known only 

 from two spirit-specimens which I found among collections of 

 Land-Planarians given to me for investigation by Captain 

 Hutton and Mr. Suter. One of the two specimens was 

 collected at Toi-Toi, Southland, by Miss Eich ; the exact 

 locality of the other is unknown, but it is veiy likely that it 

 came from the same place. Both specimens exhibited a 

 characteristic and identical arrangement of alternate dark and 

 light longitudinal bands on the dorsal surface, although the 

 colour of one was much faded. In the fresher-looking 

 specimen the light bands were very pale yellow and the dark 

 bands deep chocolate-brown. The arrangement of the bands 

 is as follows : — (1) A broad median light band; (2) a dark 

 band of about the same width on each side of the median 

 band; (3) a narrower light band outside the last ; (4) a very 

 narrow band of dark brown at the junction of the dorsal and 

 ventral surfaces. The ventral surface is pale yellow. 



In shape and size the specimens closely resemble the 

 Australian Geonemertes austrah'ensis. The larger of the two 

 specimens measures nearly an inch in length in spirit, without 

 the proboscis. 



The mouth opens into the rhynchodgeum, as in G. austra- 

 liensis. 



Lateral organs, with cephalic pits, are present in the usual 

 position. 



A cephalic gland is present, as in G. australiensis. 



I could find only four eyes, situated on the rounded ante- 

 rior extremity of the body. Two of these are much larger 

 than the other two, and lie more ventrally and a little more 

 anteriorly. In the number of eyes the New Zealand species 



* Trans. N. Z. Institute, vol. v. 1872, p. 23. Quoted by Moseley in the 

 Qu. Jour. Micr. Sci. vol. xvii. n. s. p. 275, 



