186 IDENTITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN PERIPATUS, 



within a thin hyaline membranous shell. The breeding season, at 

 any rate as to its termination, would seem to be in agreement in 

 the two cases. 



Several living example* forwarded at the same time, unfortu- 

 nately in the same enclosure as the spirit specimens, miserably 

 perished on the journe}^ 



3. P. LEUCKARTI, Siing., var. orientalis. 



F. leuckarti, Sang., of authors, but not of Sanger; nor the 

 larger Victorian Peripatus of Dendy. 



With 15 pairs of walking legs; outer jaw-blades with one 

 accessory tooth or with several. Length of largest specimens 

 extended after drowning — 9. 50 mm.; ^. 29 mm. (the antennae 

 being excluded). 



J I ah. — [Queensland*]; New South Wales (not yet found west 

 of the Dividing Range). 



I now possess a fine series of specimens from this Colony, but it 

 does not include a single specimen normally with 1 4 pairs of claw- 

 bearing legs. Of one specimen the legs of the fourteenth pair are 

 without claws, while the fifteenth jmir is represented by a pair of 

 small white symmetrical stumps, between which, however, the 

 generative aperture is placed : I should suppose that this specimen 

 was recovering from some injury to the hinder end of the body. 

 I have several times seen a specimen with one leg on one side 

 missing. 



My series presents a very remarkable variety of colour and 

 pattern. The specimens might very well be sorted out into 

 something like ten distinguishable, but more or less gradational, 

 lots. If the whole of the median series — with the exception, of 

 course, of the very dark median line — be filled in with red, the 

 mosaic of lozenges then becomes very distinct, as in that case the 



* My remarks must be understood as applying more particularly to the 

 Peripatus of New South Wales, as I have had the opportunity of examining 

 only a few Queensland specimens ( S 's), and no observations on the breeding 

 habits of the Queensland Peripatus are known to me. 



