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Sedgwick has also recorded a specimen of P. moseleyi with 22 

 pairs of legs, found in the Botanic Gardens, Pietermaritzburg, Natal 

 (in: Note on a Peripatns from Natal, Proc. Phil. Soc. Cambridge, 

 vii., pp. 250-251). 



Six specimens (3 large ? , 1 large and 2 small $ ) , collected 

 by Mr. E. A. Haviland at Escourt, Natal, in 1896, are the only 

 ones in the Museum referable to P. moseleyi. The colour of 

 these specimens after immersion in spirits for nearly two years is 

 as follows : 



Dorsal surface a uniform dark green. In one specimen the 

 larger papillae are paler and brownish green, especially round their 

 bases (these and the lateral bands \vere probably brown in the living 

 animal), while in another a few conspicuous bright orange papillae 

 occur on the anterior part of the body. Skin of head sometimes 

 pallid between the dorsal papillae. Of the five darker longitudinal 

 stripes described for balfouri (p. 342) only the medio-dorsal one is 

 very distinct. On each side just above the bases of the legs is the 

 usual lighter band (generally of a paler green, but greenish brown 

 in one specimen). Outer surface of the legs dark green, without any 

 brown papilla?. The under surface is uniformly pale, without any 

 dark pigment, except on the head, where the papillae are mostly 

 tinged with green. 



All possess 22 pairs of praegenital claw-bearing legs, the feet of 

 which are often striped on the dorsal surface with dark green longi- 

 tudinal lines, just as in Sedgwick's specimens. The spinous pads 

 are yellowish or partly green, the middle pad being 1/6-2 times as 

 wide as the proximal pad. The rudimentary leg on each side of the 

 genital opening is a mere tubercle without feet and with rudimentary 

 or no spinous pad. 



The papillae of the dorsal and lateral surfaces of body high, 

 conico-cylindrical but not clavate, mostly rounded at the apex, those 

 in the lateral paler bands often compressed at the base (possibly on 

 account of the contraction of the body). 



Although Escourt is three hundred miles distant from King 

 William's Town there is nothing in the nature of the intervening 

 country to render the occurrence of the same species throughout 

 this wide area improbable. 



3. PERIPATOPSIS, spec. nov. (?). 



Three specimens in a bottle labelled " Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Col. 

 J. H. Bowker, 1892), with 23-24 pairs of claw-bearing praegenital 



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