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The species has, as in the two already described Australasian 

 forms, fifteen pairs of claw-bearing legs, but it differs very strikingly 

 indeed both from P. Leiickartii and from P. Novcb. ZealandicB in 

 the colour and markings of the body. The general tint is brownish- 

 red, with only traces in one specimen of the bluish colour so 

 characteristic of the two above-mentioned species. The markings 

 on the body are singularly distinct and well defined, and identical 

 in the two specimens. All down the dorsal surface there runs a 

 median, broad, reddish-brown or chestnut-coloured band, divided 

 into a series of diamond-shaped patches by regular lateral indenta- 

 tions, one diamond corresponding to each pair of legs. In the 

 middle of this band there is a thin, median, whitish line. On 

 either side the chestnut-coloured band is edged by a narrow black 

 line which follows the indentations of its margin, and outside this 

 comes a broad band of darker brown, and then at the edge of the 

 dorsal surface a narrow band of light brown. The ventral surface 

 is light yellowish-brown, speckled with spots of very dark pigment, 

 especially abundant at the base of each leg. In the mid-ventral 

 line there is a row of white spots, one between the two legs of 

 each pair except the first (?) and the last (where, of course, the 

 genital opening is situated). The antennse are light brown, closely 

 ringed all the way up with very dark brown or black. 



This species, though small, is to my mind even more beautiful 

 than any of those figured by Professor Sedgwick, and I think 

 there can be little doubt as to its distinctness. The anatomical 

 features I hope to describe at a later date, and perhaps they will 

 throw further light upon its relations to previously-described 

 forms. — Yours truly, 



ARTHUR DENDY, 



Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer in Biology 

 in the University of RIclhoiirne. 

 i8th December, 1888. 



REVIEW. 



At the same time we have two works by Baron Von Mueller issued 

 from the Government press — the seventh edition of " Select Extra- 

 tropical Plants," and the " Key to the System of Victorian Plants," 

 in two parts. 



The " Select Plants" has now grown into a goodly volume of 

 over 500 pages, and affords a good instance of natural develop- 

 ment, of survival of the fittest. Originally issued unostentatiously 

 in the form of appendices to the Annual Reports of the Victorian 

 Acclimatization Society, in response to demands from the other 

 colonies, from India, Germany, and the United States, the valuable 

 information furnished in the appendices has gradually taken the 



