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be genetically connected either with Peripatoides or with Peripatus 

 with both of which it also possesses morphological affinities 



As the question stands at present the evidence for a neotropi- 

 cal connection seems to outweigh that for a migration from the 

 Australasian region, and if we accept the view that the former has 

 occurred, some support is given b}^ what is known of the structure 

 of the tropical African Mesoperipatus, which both Evans and 

 Bouvier associate with Peripatus and Eoperipatus. A further 

 study of the tropical African species may be expected to prove of 

 considerable interest from this point of view and if any Onycho- 

 phore should be discovered in S. India or Ceylon results of great 

 importance may be anticipated. 



