Art. II. — Further Notes on the Ovipariti/ of the larger 

 Victorian Peripatus, generally liwivn as P. leuckartii. 



By Arthur Dendy, D.Sc. 



[Bead May 12, 1832.] 



My observations* on the oviparous habit of the larger 

 Victoi-iau Perlpatus (hitherto generally regarded as identical 

 with the Peripatus leuckartii of Sanger) have excited a 

 good deal of hostile criticism, chiefly emanating from the pen 

 of Mr. J. J. Fletcher. On three different occasions since the 

 publication of my notes Mr. Fletcher has brought the 

 question before the Linnean Society of New South Wales 

 and his I'emarks have been ))ublished (I do not know 

 whether in full or not) in the Abstracts of Proceedings of 

 the Society.f 



I have already replied to the eai-lier criticism^s in a short 

 paper read at the Hobait meeting of the Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, which will, I 

 am informed, be published shortl^^ Mr. Fletcher's latest 

 observations, however, compel me to return to the question 

 and I am the more willing to do so as I have some further 

 information to communicate in support of my views. 



The object of Mr. Fletcher's latest contribution to the 

 literature of the subject is explained in the opening para- 

 graph, which runs as follows : — " This paper is a reply to 

 certain views expressed by Dr. Dendy with regard to the 

 reproduction of the New South Wales Peripatus, which on 

 the ipse dixit of Dr. Dendy himself is P. leuckartii, Sang.; 

 the questions at issue being not whether or no the Victorian 

 Peripatus is oviparous, but whether, firstly. Dr. Dendy was 



* Proc. Eoval Soc. Victoria for 1891, p. 31; Nature and Zoologischer 

 Anzeiiier, No.":-580, 1891. 



t Septemljer 80, 1891; February 24, 1892 ; April 27, 1892. 



