20 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 65 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES, GENERA AND HIGHER 

 GROUPS OF THE ONYCHOPHORES IN DETAIL 



Order Onychophora : Malay Peninsula and Sumatra ; Ceram ; New Guinea ; 

 New Britain ; Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand ; central and southern 

 Africa ; Central and South America from Tepic, Mexico, southward to Chile, 

 including the West Indies. 



Family Peripatopsid^e Bouvier, 1904: New Britain, New Guinea and 

 Ceram, Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand ; Natal and Cape Colony ; 

 Chile. 

 Subfamily Peripatoidin^: Evans, 1901 : Southern Queensland, New 

 South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia ; Tasmania and New 

 Zealand; Natal and the adjoining portion of Cape Colony; Chile. 

 Section I : Southeastern (southern Queensland, New South Wales 

 - and Victoria) and Western Australia, Tasmania and New Zea- 

 land. 



Genus Peripatoides Pocock, 1894 : Southern Queensland, New 

 South Wales,- Victoria and Western Australia, Tasmania 

 and New Zealand. 



Viviparous species ; Peripatoides. 

 Peripatoides orientalis (Fletcher) : Wollongong, Blue 

 Mountains, Moss Vale District, Tamworth, Cassilis 

 (banks of Mounmoun Creek), Burrawang, Colo Vale 

 (near Mattagong), Moree, Illawarra, and Dunoon (near 

 Richmond River), New South Wales; PCardwell, 

 PBrisbane, PWide Bay, Queensland ; PCunningham's 

 Gap, Northern Territory of South Australia. 

 Peripatoides occidentalis (Fletcher) : Bridgetown, Island 



of Perth, Western Australia. 

 Peripatoides gilesii Spencer : Lion Mill and Armadale, 

 near Perth ; Mundaring Weir, Darling Ranges ; and 

 Kimberley, Western Australia. 

 Peripatoides novce-zealandice (Hutton) : Wellington, 

 Dunedin, Nelson, Porirua, Stephen's Island and Oropi- 

 bush (near Taranga), Otago, Woodville, and Jararua, 

 New Zealand. 

 Peripatoides suteri (Dendy) : Stratford and Taranaki, 

 north New Zealand. 

 Oviparous species ; Ooperipatus. 

 Peripatoides leuckarti (Sanger) : Northwest of Sydney, 

 New South Wales ; Macedon, Sassafras Gully, Fern- 

 tree Gully, and Gembrook, Victoria. 

 Peripatoides spenceri Cockerell : Mt. Wellington, district 



of Lake St. Clair, Tasmania. 

 Peripatoides viridimaculatus (Dendy) : End of Lake Te 

 Anau, Clinton Valley, south New Zealand ; Pnear Te 

 Aroha, north New Zealand. 

 Oviparous species ; Symperipatus. 



