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land, Upolu in Samoa and Joinville in Brazil. The wide distribution 
of this, the largest of land planarians, has doubtless been brought about 
through the agency of man, the well-marked genus being indigenous 
only in Japan, China, India, Ceylon, the Malay Archipelago and the 
East Indies, but this species, Bipalium kewense, has never been found 
in these countries; its home is unknown. 
The purpose of this communication is to record the existence of the 
species in the United States. It is quite abundant in Cambridge, Mass., 
and has been found there in two different greenhouses. A methodical 
search would no doubt reveal it in others of the many greenhouses in 
the vicinity. The largest of the Cambridge specimens measured 300 
mm. in length, with a diameter of 4 mm., shorter individuals measuring 
from 15 mm. upward with the same diameter of 4mm. The smallest 
of the specimens always lack the semilunar head end, ey = with- 
out doubt, the products of reproduction by transverse division in w 
the head-end had not yet regenerated. 
In 1892 Sharp’ published the description of a Bipalium from a green- 
house in Landsdown, Pennsylvania, which he called B. manubriatum. 
It was suggested by Colin? that Sharp's specimen was nothing else than 
B. kewense, for with the exception of the statement that the median 
stripe is the broadest of the longitudinal markings, the descriptions of 
B. manubriatum agrees in every way with that of B. kewense. Varia- 
tions in the width of the median band in different regions of the same 
individual of B. kewense have been described and figured by Richter‘ and 
Bergendal, and Dendy® has shown the great variability of land planar- 
ians within a single species both as regards color and markings. There 
can be little doubt, therefore, that the single specimen studied by Sharp 
was the Bipalium kewense of Moseley. 
The writer would be grateful for any information as to the occurrence 
of the species in other parts of the United States, and would be glad to 
have material from other localities. 
Sharp, B. On a probable New Species of Bipalium. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phitad., "i, pp. 120-123, 1892. 
3 Colin, A. Mittheilungen über Würmer. Sitzungsb. Gesell. naturf. Freunde 
Berlin, Jahrg. 1892, No. 9, pp. 164-166. 
t Richter, F. Bipalium kewense Moseley eine Landplanarie des Palmenhauses 
zu Frankfurt, A. M. Zool. Garten, Jahrg , XVIII, pp. 231-234, 1887. 
ô Bergendal, D. Studien über Turbellarien. I. Ueber die Vermehrung durch 
Quertheilung des Bipalium Kewense tae: Kongl. Svenska. Vetensk-Akad. 
Handl., Bd. XXV, No. 4, 42, pp. 1 Pl., 189 
6 Handy: A. Notes on Some New atk Hale tase Land planarians from Tas- 
mania and South Australia. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, Vol. VI, pp. 178-188, 
Pl. X, 1893. 
