DISTRIBUTLON AND CLASSIFICATION OF ONYCHOPHORA. 401 
I think that there can be little doubt that an impartial 
consideration will assign to this species the rank of an 
independent group. Though it approaches by its colour, 
and by the characters of its jaws, legs, and feet, Capo-, 
Austro-, and Melano-Peripatus; it differs absolutely from 
those groups by its endogenous ovary, found elsewhere only 
in Neo-Peripatus, by the small size of its ova, and by the 
important characters 13 and 14a. By its feet it is more 
Fig. 13.—Ovary and gravid uterus of P. Blainvillei. (After 
Bouvier.) &s. Supposed receptaculum seminis. O. Ovary. Ov. 
Oviduct. U¢. Uterus. I, II, ILI. Embryos of one group. LV, 
V, VI. Embryos of the next group. 
especially approached to Austro-Peripatus, by the unpaired 
part of its vas deferens to Capo-Peripatus. It is un- 
doubtedly more closely allied to the Austro- and Capo- 
Peripatus than to the Neo-Peripatus, but its ova approach 
those of Neo-Peripatus more closely than do those of any 
other form, and it has an endogenous ovary. We get, there- 
fore, here again the same intermingling of characters of 
