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the identification of tlie Te Aroha specimens with the 

 Victorian and Tasmanian species. 



Localities. 



New Zealand. — South Tslan d : Clinton Yalley, hend of 

 Lake Te Anau (coll. Dendy atid Ross). ? North Island: 

 Te Aroha (coll. Mussou). 



3. Ooperipatus insignis, Dendy. (Figs. 3, 34, 35.) 



Synonymy. 



1890. Peripatus insignis, Dendy. 'Victorian Natnralist,' 

 vol. vi, p. 173; 'Annals and Magazine of Natnral 

 History/ series 6, vol. vi^ p. 121; ' Proc. Royal Soc. 

 Victoria/ vol. iii (new series), p. 44. 



1894. Peripatus in si go is, Spencer. ' Proc. Royal Soc. 



Victoria/ vol. vii (new series), p. 31. 



1895. Peripatus insignis, Dendy. 'Report of the Au-^- 



tralasian Association for the Advancement of 



Science,' Brisbane, 1895, p. 109. 

 1895. Peripatus Leuckartii, var. typica, Fletcher. 



' Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.,' vol. x, series 9, p. 185. 

 1900. Ooperipatus insignis, Dendy. ' Zoologischer 



Anzeiger,' xsiii, p. 510. 



Description. — There are fourteen pairs of claw-bearing 

 legs, each with three spinous pads on its ventral surface, the 

 proximal pad being, as usual, nari-ow and interrupted in tlie 

 fourth and fifih legs by the nephi-idial papilla3. On some of 

 the leg.", and especially on those of the last pair, the proximal 

 pad is ill-defined, and shows a tendency to break up trans- 

 versely into papilla3. The colour of the pads is pale yellowish, 

 shading into indigo-blue, without any conspicuous difference 

 between the proximal pad and the other two, though the 

 distal one is the darkest of the three. The foot bears three 

 dark-coloured primary papillaB — anterior, posterior, and 

 dorsal, overhanging the pair of claws. 



