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ONT ANEITEA GRAKFFEI AND ITS ALLIES. 



thighs, and under tail coverts, and reaching the cheek and sid« of 

 neck ; chin, cheek, side of neck, throat and breast conspicuously 

 streaked with grey central stripes; bill, black; legs and feet, rich 

 brown ; total length, 10:i mm.; culmen, 20 ; wing, 104; tail, 88 ; 

 tarsus. 26. 



Locality, Herbert Vale. 



Collected by Mr. K. Broadbent in the back scrubs over the 

 ramge, behind Cardwell. Mr. Broadbent notes that it spreads its 

 wings and tail and runs along the ground backwards and forwards, 

 and makes a curious hissing noise. Two examples only were seen- 



This species comes near the western rufiventris, in which, 

 however, the thtoat is greyish white, and there is a white lore and 

 spot before the eye, with several other differences. 



OX AXEITEA GUAEFFEI, AX I) ITS ALLIES. 

 By C. Hedley. 



It serins to be the privilege of Australia to possess in almost 

 every branch of natural history some curious and abnormal form 

 which defies the efforts of systematists to assign to it a natural 

 place in their classification ; of such among the mollusca are the 

 bitentaculate slugs. Light is often shed on similar puzzles by the 

 records of geological strata ; this, however, can hardly be the 

 case with the subject of this paper; by reason of their soft and 

 ppri.shable substance, decaying and leaving no trace behind them, 

 the interesting history of the Aneitea, the Peripatus, and many 

 such lie buried with them. 



The latest standard work, Mr. 6. W. Tryon's " Structural 

 and Systematic Conchol'>gy," deals with the bitentaculate slugs in 

 a very unsatisfactory manner. Under the Family Succineida; we 

 find the genus Athoracophorus Gould, with Janella Gray, 

 Aneitea Gray, and Triboniophorus Humbert as synonyms : and 

 Konophera Hutton, as a subgenus. 



Long ago Gray* proposed to call his new family the Janel- 



* Ann. and Mas?. Nut. Hist, 18*3, 2-12-415. 



