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lying 'between Lions Head and Lions Eiimp. These, as well as 

 a number of specimens captured in subsequent years in the same 

 valleys, all possessed either 21 or 22 pairs of legs. 



Eecently we obtained 42 other specimens of this species from 

 another valley, situated on the same side of the hill, but much 

 nearer Table Bay, and east of the signal station on the highest 

 point on Lions Eump. These specimens comprise 14 ^ and 2 5 

 with 22 pairs, 13 S^ and 11 ? with 23 pairs, and 2 <y with 

 24 pairs of claw-bearing legs, but do not differ otherwise from those 

 from other parts of the hill. This valley is only a little more than 

 half a mile distant from the nearest valley in which the specimens 

 with 21 to 22 pairs of legs occur, and closely resembles it in most 

 respects, facing as it does nearly the same direction; hence the 

 extraordinary variation in the number of the legs in the specimens 

 found in each is all the more remarkable. 



Possibly Sedgwick's specimen with 20 pairs of legs (18886, p. 169) 

 is also a local variety of Iconina. 



It is interesting to note that Peripatopsis in the Cape Peninsula 

 may, therefore, possess any number of pairs of claw-bearing legs- 

 from 16 to 24 inclusive. 



6. Oinsthopatus cinctipes, Pure. 



The specimens at my disposal were the following : — 

 (a) 15 5,3 $ , and 4 very young specimens from Dunbrody, 

 Uitenhage Div., Cape Colony, kindly collected for us and preserved 

 in spirits by the Eev. J. A. O'Neill. Some of these which I 

 sectioned were in an excellent state of preservation. 



In colour these specimens vary much after the manner of the 

 species of PerijMtojysis. The dark, almost black, medio-dorsal 

 stripe is always very distinct, and is divided longitudinally by a 

 fine white line, visible only in places in the preserved specimens. 

 The lower of the two dark green or blackish lateral stripes, described 

 in P. halfouri (An. S. Af. Mus., i., p. 342), connecting the bases of 

 the legs is also present, at least in the reddish specimens, but the 

 upper dark lateral stripe on each side, although often indicated, is 

 not distinct. The usual lighter lateral band on each side just above 

 the bases of the legs is always very distinct, and is almost or entirely 

 devoid of dark green pigment in the reddish specimens. The alter- 

 nating bands on the ventral surfaces of the legs are not always 

 well marked, the papillae being often either all entirely pallid 

 or all green. 



