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Blanchard has not, with the exception of a name, assigned 

 to it any feature which can be in the least degree regarded 

 as specifically distinctive. He calls it P. Blainvillei, and says 

 that it has nineteen pairs of legs. The name I propose to 

 discard^ and the statement of fact I am inclined to doubt, for 

 this reason: — In Gay's 'Historia de Chile/ vol. iii, "Zoologia/' 

 p. 58, there is a description of this proposed new species, and the 

 possession of nineteen pairs of legs is given as a character. I 

 presume Blanchard is responsible for this statement as it coin- 

 cides with that given in No. 8. In the description reference 

 is made to some figures in the Atlas. These turn out to be a 

 dorsal, ventral, and side view, &c., of the specimen described. 

 Will it be believed that not only does each of these figures 

 show a difi'erent number of legs, but in the case of the dorsal 

 and ventral views, the numbers on the right and left sides are 

 different ? The details are as follows : 



Dorsal view, right side, 



27 legs 



and oral 



papilla. 



„ left „ 



26 



JJ 



a 



Ventral „ right „ 



33 



»» 



i) 



>, left „ 



31 



3) 



33 



Side view of left side. 



20 



3J 



)> 



I do not know who is responsible for these figures. The 

 draftsman's name on the plate is Spinola. I need hardly say 

 that, if they are a fair sample of the drawings in the Atlas, the 

 zoological plates are not worth the paper they are printed on. 



It willj perhaps, be convenient to denote the fact that there 

 is a Peripatus in Chili, by introducing for it the provisional 



name of Peripatus chiliensis. 



7. Blanchard refers to a Peripatus found in Cuba by M. 

 Macleay. He regards it as belonging to the species juliformis. 

 I have been unable to find any account of this Cuban species. 



8. Grube (No. 11) describes three specimens of Peripatus 

 from near Colonia Towai', in Venezuela, and referred them to 

 P.Edwardsii. One of the specimens possessed twenty-nine 

 pairs of legs and the other two thirty each. But one cannot 

 regard his statements on this head as being trustworthy, in- 



