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Section I. 



Included Genera. — Peripatoides Pocock, 1894; Ooperipatus Dendy, 1900; 

 Symperipatus Cockerell, 1913.* 



Section II. 

 Included Genera. — Opisthopatus Purcell, 1899; Metaperipatus now 



Subfamily Peripatopsin.e Evans, 1901. 



Section I. 

 Included Genus. — Paraperipatus Willey, 1898. 



Section II. 

 Included Genus. — Peripatopsis Pocock, 1894. 



* A NOTE ON THE AUSTRALIAN PERIPATOPSID.E. 



Several years ago I came to the conclusion (Science, vol. 27. No. 694, Apr. 17, 1908, 

 p. 620) that Ooperipatus oviparus Dendy deserved a distinctive generic name, and that 

 the 0. insignis of Bouvier (Annales des sciences naturelles, 9e serie, tome 5, 1907, p. 267) 

 from Tasmania could not retain the name assigned to it, the original insig?iis having 

 been a different animal. 



At the request of Mr. A. II. Clark I now give the new names considered necessary 

 in this connection : (1) Symperipatus, gen. now, for Symperipatus oviparus (Peripatus 

 oviparus) Dendy; (2) Ooperipatus spenceri, nom. now, for the species described by 

 Bouviei under the name of Ooperipatus insignis. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



