The Anatomy of Oinstliopatus cinctiiies. IGS 



reduced to an incomplete foot in one specimen, but consisted of 

 a well-formed foot on a prominent stump with rudiments of a, 

 spinous pad in the other specimen. Of these two specimens Bouvier 

 further says, " Les pattes posterieures etaient toutes deux armies 

 de deux griffes " (p. 120), and from this I conclude that these 

 specimens belong to a species of the halfouri section, in which the 

 genital legs are always provided with normal claws, although the 

 leg itself is frequently greatly reduced in the male, as in Bouvier's 

 specimens. In any case Bouvier is hardly justified in identifying 

 them with P. moseleyi merely because they appear similar to the 

 latter species in other respects. P. sedgioichi, Pure, for instance, 

 which possesses claw-bearing genital legs, much resembles moseleyi 

 in size, shape of the papillae, width of the middle spinous pad, and 

 colouration, and possesses only one pair of pregenital legs less than 

 some males of moseleyi have. 



The principal specific characters of P. moseleyi may now be 

 restated as follows : Number of pregenital legs 20-24 pairs, each 

 bearing a pair of claws ; the rudimentary leg on each side of the 

 genital opening rarely quite obsolete, generally distinguishable and 

 either without foot or with a rudimentary but clawless foot, some- 

 times with a single claw on one of the fefet ; papillae of body not 

 incrassated at apex. Inhabits Natal and the eastern portion of 

 Gape Colony. Size large. 



The list of specimens examined and their localities, mentioned in 

 my previous paper, may be shortly recapitulated here together with 

 some additional ones. 



{a) Two specimens from the Katberg Forest with 21 pairs of 

 pregenital legs (Purcell, 1899, p. 340). 



(6) Three ? and 3 ^ from Bstcourt, Natal, all with 22 pairs of 

 legs (p. 388). 



(c) A number of living specimens from Kichmond, Natal {Bev, 

 J. B. Ward), from which a large number of young were obtained. 

 Of 5 fairly large males two had 20 pairs, two 21 pairs, and one 22 

 pairs of legs, while of 7 large females five had 21 and two 22 pairs 

 of legs. If we include all the young with the above, out of a total 

 of 53 specimens from Richmond there were 5 with 20 pairs of legs, 

 37 with 21 pairs, and 11 with 22 pairs. 



The specimens from this locality range through all the types of 

 colouration described on p. 97, there being — 



(1) Brick-red forms, with the smaller papillae of the dorsal surface 

 somewhat darkened with blackish pigment, but the larger ones of 

 this surface and all the papillae in the light lateral bands pure pale 



