266 Mr. H. N. Moseley on the Species of Peripatus. 
thirty-one pairs of feet also. It was obtained at Santo Do¬ 
mingo in Nicaragua. 
Two species are described from the Cape of Good Hope, 
P. brevis and P. capensis , with fourteen and seventeen pairs 
of feet respectively. It is possible that these are identical ; 
and it is also possible that P. juliformis with thirty-three 
pairs is not distinct from P. Edwardsii with from twenty-nine 
to thirty-one. 
Singularly enough I have seen no variation in the Cape or 
New-Zealand specimens obtained by me ; and Captain Hutton 
found no variation in the case of the latter. 
In the British Museum there are, besides the Peripatus 
from the Amazons, several other specimens of the genus. 
(1) A bottle contains three specimens purchased of Mr. 
Cuming, collected by Mr. Gosse, 1846. These specimens 
are labelled u from Jamaica.” 
Two of the specimens, one large and the other small, 
have each thirty-one pairs of feet and appear —Peripatus Ed¬ 
wardsii. 
The third specimen has thirty-seven pairs of feet, and differs 
from the other two in general appearance, and in having the 
surface of the body finely granulated instead of more or less 
tubercular, and also in having the pits (spiracular ?) on the 
under surface of the foot-cones well marked and circular, and 
not rather indistinct and linear as in P. Edwardsii . 
(2) Another bottle contains one specimen marked Peripatus 
Blainvillei (Gay and Blanchard) by Baird. This is from 
St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. This has twenty-eight 
pairs of feet. In its outward appearance it resembles the 
smaller specimen (bottle 1) from Jamaica, which has thirty- 
one pairs. A note is put on the bottle by Baird, that in 
Blanchard’s description nineteen pairs of feet are described as 
occurring in P. Blainvillei , whilst in his figures there are in 
one twenty-seven or twenty-eight, and in the other thirty-two 
to be counted. 
(3) A bottle contains a small specimen from the Cape from 
Mr. Roland Trimen. This has, as in all the Cape specimens 
I examined, seventeen pairs. 
(4) There is a specimen marked P. Blainvillei without 
locality being given. This has thirty-three pairs of feet, and 
is finely granular on the body-surface like the Jamaica speci¬ 
men with thirty-seven pairs. 
The descriptions of the South-American and West-Indian 
species are vague, since the figures do not correspond with 
them. 
It is probable that in the case of the three specimens in the 
