336 Annals of tJie South African Museum. 



xxiii., 1883 (pp. 3-8 of the reprint refer to 

 eapensis and half our i, pi. xiii. and xiv. to capensis 

 only). 



,, ,, Sedgwick, The develop, of P. capensis, Pt. 1, 



Q. J. M. S. (2), xxv., p. 450, 1885; reprinted 

 in Stud. Morph. Lab. Cambridge, iv., p. 2, 1889. 

 ,, ,, Sedgwick, A Monograph on the spec, and distrib. 



of the genus Pcripatus, Guild., Q. J. M. S. (2), 

 xxviii., 1888; reprinted in Stud. Morph. Lab. 

 Cambridge, iv., pp. 157-166, pi. xiv.-xvi. and 

 pi. xx., figs. 27-28, 1889. 



Characters. Claw-bearing (prsegenital) legs 17 pairs ; the middle 

 spinous pad not very broad, only l - 4-l*7 times as wide as the 

 proximal pad. 



On each side of the genital opening in the female is a papilliferous 

 tubercle, which is the rudiment of the genital pair of legs. Near 

 the apex of each on the ventral side is a small, yellowish, spinous 

 pad. In one specimen this pad was surmounted at the apex of one 

 of the tubercles by a movable rudimentary foot, which was pro- 

 vided with four papillae on its ventral surface and the rudiment of a 

 claw in the centre between them. Often the pad is absent, and 

 sometimes even the tubercle itself may be quite obsolete on one side 

 of the body. In the male the tubercle is even more reduced and 

 without trace of spinous pad or foot. 



Papillae of the dorsal and lateral surfaces conical, high, rounded 

 at the apex, never clavate. 



Length and width of average adult $ (alive and extended): 58 x 6^- mm. 



,? 39 v 4- 



jj j j j O ) > tJ^J XN j: j j 



,, ,, of same ? and $ , preserved in alcohol, sol. of 



HgCL and contracted : 41 x 7 mm. and 28 x 44- mm. Sedgwick 

 gives 65 mm. for the $ and 48 for the $ . 



Colour of darker forms (5 ad. and 7 juv. from St. James, False 

 Bay, and 5 ad. from Platteklip, Table Mountain. Dorsal and lateral 

 surfaces deep velvety black, often with a greenish tinge in some 

 lights ; becoming dark green after long immersion in spirits. The 

 five longitudinal darker stripes described for balfouri (on p. 342) 

 present, but, excepting the medio-dorsal one, not very distinct. 

 The usual lateral band just above the bases of the legs on each 

 side slightly lighter in colour than the rest of the dorsal surface 

 and often more distinctly green in the living animal. 



All the papillae black, many of the larger tipped with orange- 

 brown, at least along the lighter lateral bands ; these orange-tipped 



