180 THE GENUS PEEIPATUS. 



Peripatus Leuckarti. 



Locality, Queensland. 



Australasian Peripatus, with fifteen pairs of legs, an acces- 

 sory tooth on the outer blade of the jaw, and a white papilla on 

 the ventral side of the last leg of the male. 



The following observations were made on two specimens most 

 kindly placed at my disposal by Professor Jeffrey Bell, to whom 

 they were sent by Dr. Ramsay, of Sydney. They were found 

 (vide No. 44) near Wide Bay in Queensland. The finder's name 

 has not been communicated to me. (See postscript A.) 



Both the specimens were much contracted and the feet 

 bent ventrally on the legs, so that it was difficult to get a good 

 view of the ventral surfaces of the feet. 



The length of large specimen . . . 16 — 17 mm. 



„ „ small „ ... 9 — 10 mm. 



The large specimen was a female, and the small a male. 



Generally it may be said of these specimens that they 

 resemble almost exactly the New Zealand species. After 

 careful search I have only been able to find three minute 

 points of real difference between them. These are : 



1. The outer blades of the jaws have an accessory tooth at 

 the base of the main tooth, as in the Cape species. 



2. The male has a rounded white papilla on the ventral face 

 of the fifteenth leg, on each side of the genital opening. It is 

 in the same position with regard to the leg as the corresponding 

 structure in the Cape males. 



3. The pigment on the ventral surface is much less con- 

 spicuous in this than in the New Zealand species, so that the 

 mottled appearance presented by the ventral surface of the 

 latter species is not found in these specimens. The pigment 

 on the ventral surface of these specimens is much more 

 marked in the lower parts of the papillae than elsewhere. In 

 the skin between the papillae and at the apices of the papillae 

 the pigment is so faint as to be hardly discernible. The result 



