SYNOPSIS. 203 



Peripatus sumatranus (Horst). 



Peripatus from Sumatra, with twenty-four pairs of ambulatory 

 legs, four pads on the legs, and constricted papillce. The 

 generative opening is between the legs of the penultimate pair. 

 The feet have only two papillce. 



SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF PERIPATUS. 

 South African Species. 



With three spinous pads on the legs and two 'primary papillce on the anterior side 

 of the foot, and one accessory tooth on tlie outer blade of tlie jaw ; with a 

 white papilla on the ventral surface of the last fully developed leg of the 

 male. Genital opening subterminal, behind the last pair of fully -developed 

 legs. The terminal unpaired portion of vas deferens short. {Ova of con- 

 siderable size, but with only a small quantity of food-yolk.) 



P. eapensis (Grube). — South African Peripatus, with seventeen pairs of claw- 

 hearing ambulatory legs. Locality, Table Mountain. P. 157. 



P. Balfouri (Sedgwick). — South African Peripatus, with eighteen pairs of 

 claw-bearing ambulatory legs, of which the last pair is rudimentary. With 

 white papilla on the dorsal surface. Locality, Table Mountain. P. 166. 



P. brevis (De Blainville). — South African Peripatus, with fourteen pairs of 

 ambulatory legs. Locality, Table Mountain. (I have not seen this 

 species. Presumably it has the South African characters.) P. 168. 



P. Moseleyi (Wood Mason). — South African Peripatus, with twenty-one and 

 twenty-two pairs of claw -bearing ambulatory legs. Locality, near Williams- 

 town, Cape Colony. P. 169. 



Doubtful Species. 



(1) South African Peripatus, with twenty pairs of claw-bearing ambulatory legs 



(Sedgwick). Locality, Table Mountain. (Also Peters, locality not stated.) 

 P. 168. 



(2) South African Peripatus, with nineteen pairs of ambulatory legs (Trimen). 

 Locality, Plettenberg Bay, Cape Colony. (Also Peters, locality not stated.) 

 P. 168. 



Australasian Species. 



With fifteen pairs of claw-bearing ambulatory legs, with three spinous pads on 

 tlie legs, and a primary papilla projecting from the median dorsal portion 



