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P. quitensis (Schmarda) . 



10. Professor JeflPrey Bell has recently (No. 43) drawn 

 attention to a reference by Schmarda in his ' Zoology' (No. 42) 

 to a species with thirty-six pairs of legs from Quito, in Ecuador. 

 Schmarda gives a figure of the specimen, which came from an 

 elevation of 9000 feet. 



Neotropical Peripatus in the British Museum. 



1. Specimen from Dominica found by Mr. G. F. Angas. 

 This specimen is in excellent condition, and has twenty-nine 

 pairs of ambulatory legs. It has been shortly described by 

 Professor Jeffrey Bell (No. 29), who says that it has thirty 

 pairs of legs. This may be so, but I could not make out more 

 than twenty-nine. The dorsal surface is brown, and there is 

 a dark streak (chocolate-coloured with a dash of purple) run- 

 ning along the sides of the body just dorsal to the legs. The 

 legs are without tubercles. The pedal grooves are widely open. 

 The papillae are, I think, conical in form ; but the light was 

 not good enough to enable me to obtain certainty oh this point. 



2. A specimen marked P. S/amviZ/ei, without locality. Thishas 

 thirty-three pairs of ambulatory legs, and is of a reddish-brown 

 colour. It is very much contracted. There were no tubercles, 

 and I was not able to make out the shape of the papillae. 



3. A specimen marked P. Blainvillei, without locality (see 

 above, p. 196), with twenty-eight pairs of ambulatory legs. 



4. There are three specimens in a bottle labelled " From 

 Jamaica," collected by Gosse. 



They are all a yellowish brown. Two of them have thirty- 

 one and one thirty-seven pairs of ambulatory legs. The 

 latter is remarkable as being the smallest of the three, mea- 

 suring in the contracted condition 22 mm. Of the two with 

 thirty-one pairs of legs, the largest measured about 48 mm., 

 and the other about 22 mm. The papillae were conical and 

 there were no tubercles. Mr. Gosse, in ' A Naturalist's 

 Sojourn in Jamaica ' (P. H. Gosse, London, Longmans, 



