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ZOOLOGY 



SECT . 



according to the species) of pairs of short stumpy appendages. 

 The integument is thrown into a number of fine transverse 

 wrinkles, and is beset with numerous conical papillae, each 

 capped with a little chitinous spine. The head (Fig. 443) bears 

 a pair of antennae, a pair of eyes, a pair of jaws, and a pair of 



KM:. 441'. Peripatus cape nsis, lateral view. (From Balf our.) 



short processes known as the oral papillae. The antenna are made 

 up of a number of short rings. The eyes are constructed some- 

 what after the model of the Chaetopod eye as described on p. 439. 

 On the surface of the oral papillae are situated the apertures of 

 a pair of glands the slime glands. Each jaw is composed of 



FIG. 443. Ventral view of head of Peripatus capensis, with antennae, jaws, oral 

 and first pair of legs. (After Balfour.) 



two curved, falciform, chitinous plates ; the\ lie at the sides of 

 the mouth enclosed by a circular lip. The jaws, as well as the 

 oral papillae, are developed as modified limbs. 



The legs are not jointed, but rows of papilla? give them a ringed 

 appearance ; each consists of a proximal part and a small distal 

 part or foot, the latter terminating in a pair of horny claws. 



