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ico and the West Indies. Thirty American species have 

 been listed by a recent writer (Bouvler, 1905). In zoolog- 

 ical literature Peripatus is famous as a "connecting link." 

 We found two specimens this day, the larger one being about 

 three Inches long, of a reddish-brown color with yellowish 

 dots and marks; It had a cylindrical body and twenty-nine 

 pairs of legs. Both were found in one of the potreros above 

 mentioned and, as Is usual, under decaying logs. The alti- 

 tude was about 2400 feet. I put both specimens in a bottle 

 with some decaying wood and moss In the hope of keeping 

 them alive, as Professor Tristan had kept one under such 

 conditions for nearly a year, and eventually took them to 

 our quarters in Cartago. On August 5 we made a couple 

 of photographs of the larger one but with little success as the 

 creatures became too restless In the amount of light requi- 

 site. In September the smaller one was sent to Philadel- 

 phia by a returning traveler, but did not reach its destina- 

 tion alive. At that time we found two little ones In the 

 bottle, but as these animals live In rotten wood away from 

 the light we supposed we had gathered in more than we 

 knew along with the food. On November 12, 1909, we saw 

 that the large one was dead and mouldy and supposed all 

 was over with the Peripatus family. However, we pulled 

 out the soft wood and to our astonishment iound four lively 

 little ones, while everything in the bottle seemed sweet and 

 wholesome except Immediately around the dead one. These 

 animals are viviparous and the large one was evidently the 

 mother of the small ones that appeared from time to time. 

 The Infants were returned to the bottle and we hoped that 

 they would continue to thrive. Within the next three 

 weeks, however, two small ones were removed from the 

 bottle, dead. We believed that two more small ones still 

 remained, but on December 5 not a trace could be found 

 and we suppose they must have died and disintegrated. A 



