South African Species of Pcni>atid(c. 351 



The following form of uncertain position is unknown to me : 



PEBIPATUS BREVIS, Blainville. 



Page 8 of Gervais' Etude pour servir a 1'histoire natur. des 

 Myriap., in : Ann. Sci. Nat. (2), vii., 1837. 



Black above, pallid below, with 14 pairs of legs; length 43 mm., 

 breadth 4 mm. Found under a stone in a wood on Table Mountain. 

 (Quoted from Sedgwick, 1898.) Moseley considers this species to 

 be capensis badly described. The circumstance that it appears never 

 to have been found again certainly lends colour to this view. 



Synopsis of the named South African Species. 



A. Genital opening longitudinal, situated between a pair of rudimentary 

 (sometimes quite obsolete) legs Gen. PERIPATOPSIS, Poc. 



a. These legs with neither claws nor rudiments of feet. 



a 1 . Seventeen pairs of claw-bearing legs. Cape Penin. P. capensis (Grube). 



b 1 . Twenty-one to twenty-two pairs of claw-bearing legs. King William's 

 Town and Natal P. mosclcyi (Wood-M.). 



b. These legs with normal feet and claws. 



a-. None of the dorsal and lateral papillae clavate. 



a 3 . Eighteen pairs of claw-bearing legs. Cape Penin., Clanwilliam. 



P. balfouri (Sedgw.). 



i\ Twenty-one to twenty-two pairs of claw-bearing legs. Cape Penin. 



P. leonina, n. sp. 



c 3 . Twenty pairs of claw-bearing legs. Knysna, Graham's Town. 



P. scdgwicki, n. sp. 



b-. Many of the papillae of the upper surface of body clavate, being en- 

 larged in the apical part ; seventeen pairs of claw-bearing legs. Knysna. 



P. clavigera, n. sp. 



B. Genital opening a transverse slit situated between the last pair of legs, which 

 are normal and not reduced in size Gen. OPISTHOPATUS, nov. 



Claw-bearing legs sixteen pairs. Uitenhage Div O. cinctipes, 11 sp. 



Doubtful species with fourteen pairs of legs. Table Mountain. 



Pcripatiis brcvis, Blainv. 



