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p. 62), refers to these Peri pat us in the following terms: "Peri- 

 pat us found at Bluefields mountain above Bluefields House, 

 near the town of Savanna lo Mar. The mountain height is 

 four or five miles from Bluefields. Here, around a piece of 

 burnt ground just reclaimed from the forest, but not yet 

 planted, were found, under stones, five or six specimens of 

 Peripatus, one twice as large as any of the others. The piece 

 of ground lay at the foot of a conical peak of considerable 

 elevation, but not the very loftiest, covered with original forest. 

 It is a curious creature, and I think rather allied to the 

 Annelida than the Mollusca. It is of a velvety appearance, of 

 a blackish-brown hue, the tentacles tipped with white. From 

 these latter organs there exudes, when the animal is touched, a 

 thick glutinous substance, as adherent as birdlime." He con- 

 cludes that it is of a different species from that found by the 

 Rev. L. Guilding at St. Vincent. 



5. A specimen labelled " Peripatus juliformis, West Indies, 

 Mr. Gibson, Nereis viridis, Adams, ' Linn. Trans./ feet only 

 thirty-one pairs." 



This specimen was about 65 mm. in length, 5^ in breadth, 

 5 in dorso-ventral depth; i.e. it was cylindrical in form. It 

 possessed thirty-two pairs of ambulatory legs, and has a very 

 pale brown colour (almost white). Its skin is much smoother 

 than is generally the case. 



The legs have four spinous pads, and are without tubercles; 

 the generative opening is between the legs of the penultimate 

 pair; the integumentary papillae are constricted; the legs of 

 the last two pairs are very small. It clearly, therefore, belongs 

 to a typical Neotropical species, but more than this cannot be 

 said. 



6. A smaller specimen with thirty pairs of ambulatory legs of 

 very much the same colour and form. It was labelled, "Peri- 

 patus juliformis, Guild., W. Indies? Sloane collection." 



It possesses thirty pairs of legs. The generative opening 

 is between the legs of the penultimate pair. The grooves on 

 the base of the legs fairly well marked. Feet not sufficiently 

 well preserved for study (claws broken away). The integu- 



