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marked head and a series (14-42) of short stumpy appendages. The 

 integument is thrown into a number of fine transverse wrinkles and is 



FIG. 137. Peripatus capensis, lateral view. (From Balfour.) 



beset with numerous conical papillae, each capped with a little chitinous 

 spine. The head (Fig. 138) bears a pair of antennas, a pair of eyes, a 



FIG. 138. Ventral view of head of Peripatus capensis, with antennae, jaws, oral 

 papillae, and first pair of legs. ('After Balfour.) 



pair of jaws, and a pair of short processes the oral papilla. On the 

 surface of the oral papillae are situated a pair of glands, the slime glands. 



