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PERIPATTJS GUIANENSIS. 



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On Peripatus guianensis (sp. nov.). 



By 



Richard Evniis, I?I.A., D.Sc.(Oxoii.), 



Curator of the Museum, Georgetown, Britisli Guiana. 



Introduction. 



To add another species to the already somewhat large 

 number of the New World members of the family Peripatidae 

 will probably seem to many zoologists to be unwarranted 

 presumption, for within the last few years the number of 

 species from this part of the world has been more than 

 doubled — a result, to some extent, of redescribing old material 

 rather than of discovering new forms. However, the species 

 under consideration in the present paper cannot be identified 

 with any of the already known ones ; and whatever view we 

 choose to adopt regarding the validity of some of the species 

 which have been made, I am of opinion that no one will doubt, 



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