ON THE OVIPAROUS SPECIES OP ONYCHOPHORA. 367 



1. P. Leuckartii, var. typica =: P. insignis, Dendy. 



2. P. Leuckartii, var, occidentalism var. nov. (for the 

 West Australian specimens). 



3. P. Leuckartii, var. orientalis, for tlie New South 

 Wales and presumably the Queensland specimens (the P. 

 Leuckartii, auctorum). 



4. ^' The Victorian Peripatus to be dealt with by Dr. 

 Dendy/^ referring to Peripatus oviparus, my description 

 of which is placed after Mr. Fletcher's paper. 



Although I myself pointed out that P. in sign is might be 

 identical with P. Leuckartii, the latter possibly having onl}^ 

 fourteen pairs of claw-bearing legs, instead of fifteen, as 

 usually believed, yet I do not b}^ any means consider that the 

 evidence is suflBcient to justify the rearrangement pro- 

 posed by Mr. Fletcher. Indeed, it seems to me very 

 improbable that Sanger should ever have had Peripatus 

 insignis in his possession. In any case the original 

 accounts by Leuckart and Sanger are so inadequate and 

 apparently contradictory that the species (without re-exami- 

 nation of the type) cannot be certainly identified, and there- 

 fore we are fully justified in following the usual custom, and 

 applying the specific name Leuckartii to the common 

 New South Wales species, while retaining the name in- 

 signis for the very different southern species with fourteen 

 pairs of legs. This question will be more fully discussed 

 later on. 



So far, however, from agreeing with Mr. Fletcher that all 

 the Australian forms are varieties of the same species, I 

 maintain that there are in Australia two genera of Onychophora 

 each with at least two species. I consider, in fact, that 

 P. oviparus may be regarded as the type of a new genus, 

 for which I have (19) proposed the name Ooperipatus, 

 and iu which I also include P. insignis and the species 

 from New Zealand lately (17) described by me under the 

 name P. viridimaculatus. All these three species differ 

 from the common Australian Peripatus (P. Leuckartii, 

 auctorum) in the possession by the female of a prominent 



