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of the southern hemisphere, but do not occur in the 

 northern hemisphere. They are found in S. America, 

 in S. Africa on Table-Mountain, in Tasmania and 

 Victoria, in New Guinea and the West Indian Islands. 

 The animal most nearly resembles a Centipede with 

 short and few legs, and its habit is to frequent forests 

 and undergrowth, living under decaying tree stumps 

 and fallen timber. The skin has a velvety appearance ; 



Fig. 6. Peripatus capensis, drawn from life. Life size. 

 (After Sedgwick.) 



the movements are slow but not ungraceful and the 

 creature feels its way about with the help of a pair of 

 short antennae, the eyes being ill-formed and built on 

 a simple plan. The eyes in fact resemble more closely 

 the eyes of a worm than the compound faceted eyes 

 found in Arthropods. 



In its internal anatomy Peripatus at first sight 

 would appear to be a typical Arthropod ; there is no 

 internal segmentation apparent, and the body-cavity 



