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account of its habits and anatomy, and a few words on its develop- 

 ment. 



(20) MosELEY, H. N. Remarks on Observations by Capt. Hutton, 

 Director of the Otago Museum, on Peripatus novce-zealandice, 

 with notes on the Structure of the Species. Ann. Mag. N. H. 

 (4)xix. pp. 85-91. 1877. 



A criticism of Hutton (19\ with additional remarks on several 

 points in the anatomy of P. novce-zealandicB not mentioned by him. 



(21) Balfour, F. M. On certain Points in the Anatomy of Peri- 

 patus capensis. Proc. Cambr. Phil. Soc. iii. pp. 266-2()9 ; 

 Quart. J. Micr. Sc. xix. pp. 431-433. 1879. 



Description of the renal segmental organs and of certain points in 

 the anatomy of the nervous system of Peripatus. 



(22) MosELEY, H. N. Notes on the Species of Peripatus, and 

 especially on those of Cayenne and the West Indies. Ann. 

 Mag. N. H. (.5) iii. pp. 263-267. 1879. 



Contains a history of the genus and a discussion as to the number 

 of species in South America ; also notes on two specimens, one from 

 Santarem, on the Amazons ; the other from Nicaragua, collected bv 

 Mr. Thomas BeU( 17). 



(23) Peters, W. Ueher die Arten von Peripatus. SB. nat. Fr. 

 Berlin, 1880, pp. 28-29. 1880. 



A short account of the species then known (four), and remarks 

 on the variation of the number of pairs of legs. Records the exist- 

 ence of specimens in the Berlin Museum from Porto Rico, Surinam, 

 and Yenezuela. 



(24) Peters, W. Die Variation der Fusszahl bei Peripatus capensis, 

 Giube. SB. nat. Fr. Berlin, 1880, pp. 165-166. 1880. 



Records the variation in the number of pairs of legs in a series of 

 Peripatus from the Cape of from 22 to 17 pairs. 



(25) Ernst, A. Some remarks on Peripatus edwardsii, Blanch. 

 Nature, xxiii. pp. 446-448. 1881. 



An account of specimens found at Caraccas, in Venezuela. 



(26) Moseley, H. N., and Sedgwick, A, Note on a discovery, 

 as yet unpublished, by the late Professor F. M. Balfour, con- 

 cerning the existence of a Blastopore, and on the Origin of the 

 Mesoblast in the Embryo of Peripatus capensis. Proc. R. 

 S. xxxiv. pp. 390-393. 1882. 



(27) Balfotjr, F. M. The Anatomy and Development of Peri- 

 jiatus capensis; edited by Prof. H. N. Moseley and A. Sedg- 

 wick. Quart. J. Micr. Sc. xxiii. pp. 213-259, pis. xiii.-xx. 

 1883. 



Description of the anatomy and some account of the developuient, 

 with a coloured plate, of P. capetisis. 



(28) Bell, F. J. Note on a Peripatvs from the Island of Domi- 

 nica, West Indies. Ann. Mag. N, II. (5) \\. p. 388. 1883. 



