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minor teeth on the inner blade of the jaw. The basal portions of 

 the primary papillae are conical. 



Peripatus torquatus (von Kennel). Peripatus of large size, 

 with 11 to \'l pairs of ambulatory legs. The head is marked (ill' 

 from the body by a bright yellow band on the dorsal surface. 



The larger species is named P. torquatus and v. Kennel 

 gives the following description of it. " The females reach the 

 length of 15 cm., with a diameter of 8 m.m ; while the males 

 have a length of about 10 cm. The colour of the dorsal surface 

 is red In-own, the middle line of the back being somewhat darker 

 and paling oil' towards the sides. The head with the tentacles is 

 black and is marked off from the body on the dorsal side by a 

 bright yellow band, which often shows a small interruption in 

 the middle line. There are 11 or 42 pairs of legs. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



THE Publication Committee regret to have to record in the 

 present number the death, on August 24th, of Dr. B. N. 

 Rake, President of the Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club. A notice 

 of Dr. Rake's career will appear in the December Journal. The 

 Committee feel that they are not in a position at the present 

 moment to do more than chronicle the sad event, but they hope 

 to publish a notice which will show — it is feared most inadequately 

 — their high appreciation of the late Dr. Rake, and the sorrow 

 which they feel at the sudden, sad and early termination of his 

 brilliant and useful life. 



THE Committee are also much grieved to have to record the 

 death of Mr. Arthur Gaywood. Mr. Gaywood joined the Club 

 on the Gth April this year. He came to several of the meetings 

 and would probably have been a regular attendant. Mr. 

 Gaywood was present at the August meeting. He died of the 

 prevailing malignant fever on the 13th August. He was 25 

 years old. 



IT is also the sad duty of the Committee to have to add to the 

 list of our departed friends the name of Mr. Henry Tale, 

 B.A., F.I.C., Acting Government Analyst, who died on the 18th 

 August, with all the evidences of the most malignant type of 

 remittent fever. 



Mr. Tate was a son of Alexander Tate, Civil Engineer, of 

 Longwood, Belfast. His cousin, Captain Stewart, now commands 



