24 PERIPATUS 



SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 



With three spinous pads on the legs and two primary papillae on the 

 anterior side of the foot, and one accessory tooth on the outer blade of the 

 jaw ; with a white papilla on the ventral surface of the last fully developed 

 leg of the male. Genital opening subterminal, behind the last pair of fully- 

 developed legs. The terminal impaired portion of vas deferens short. Ova 

 of considerable size, but with only a small quantity of food-yolk. (Colour 

 highly variable, number of legs constant in same species (?).) 



P. CAPENSIS (Grube). South African Peripatus, with seventeen pairs of 

 claw-bearing ambulatory legs. Locality, Table Mountain. 



P. BALFOURI (Sedgwick). South African Peripatus, with eighteen pairs 

 of claw-bearing ambulatory legs, of which the last pair is rudimentary. 

 With white papillae on the dorsal surface. Locality, Table Mountain. 



P. BREVIS (De Blainville). South African Peripatus, with fourteen pairs 

 of ambulatory legs. Locality, Table Mountain. (I have not seen this 

 species. Presumably it has the South African characters.) 



P. MOSELEYI (Wood Mason). South African Peripatus, with twenty-one 

 and twenty-two pairs of claw-bearing ambulatory legs. Locality, near 

 Williamstown, Cape Colony ; and Natal. 1 



Doubtful Species. 



(1) South African Peripatus, with twenty pairs of claw-bearing ambu- 

 latory legs (Sedgwick). Locality, Table Mountain. (Also Peters, locality 

 not stated.) 



(2) South African Peripatus, with nineteen pairs of ambulatory legs 

 (Trimen). Locality, Plettenberg Bay, Cape Colony. (Also Peters, locality 

 not stated.) 



AUSTRALASIAN SPECIES. 



With fifteen pairs of claw-bearing ambulatory legs, with three spinous 

 pads on the legs, and a primary papilla projecting from the median dorsal 

 portion of the feet. Genital opening between the legs of the last pair. 

 Receptacula seminis present. Unpaired portion of vas deferens long and 

 complicated. Ova large and heavily charged with yolk. (Colour variable, 

 number of legs constant in same species (?).) 



P. NOVAE ZEALANDIAE (Hutton). Australasian Peripatus, without an 

 accessory tooth on the outer blade of the jaw, and without a white papilla 

 on the base of the last leg of the male. New Zealand. 



P. LEUCKARTI (Saenger). Australasian Peripatus, with an accessory tooth 

 on the outer blade of the jaw, and a white papilla on the base of the last leg 

 of the male. Queensland. 



NEOTROPICAL SPECIES. 

 With four spinous pads on the legs, and the generative aperture between 



1 There are now, I am told by Professor Jeffrey Bell, specimens from Xatal (I 

 believe undescribed) at the British Museum with twenty-three and twenty -four 

 pairs of legs. 



