206 THE GENUS PERIPATUS. 



SUMMARY OF DISTRIBUTION. 



Distribution op the South African Species — 



Slopes of Table Mountain, neighbourhood of Williamstown, Pletten- 

 berg Bay — Cape Colony. 



Distribution of the Australasian Species — 

 Queensland — Australia. 

 North and South Islands — New Zealand. 



Oriental Region — 

 Sumatra (?). 



Distribution of the Neotropical Species — 

 Nicaragua. 

 Valencia Lake, Caracas, Puerto Cabello, Laguayra, Colonia Towar^ 



Venezuela. 

 Quito — ^Ecuador. 



Maccasseema, Hoorubea Creek — Demerara. 

 Surinam (Peters). 

 Cayenne. 



Santarem, Marajo at the mouth of the Amazon — Brazil. 

 Chili. 



Peru (Grube). 

 and in the following West Indian Islands — Cuba, Dominica, Porto Rico 



(Peters), Jamaica, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Trinidad. 



Postscript A. 



Since writing the account of the Queensland specimen on 

 pp. 180 — 182, I have received a letter from Mr. A. Sidney 

 OlliflF, of Sidney, and a specimen of Peripatus, which he, in 

 conjunction with Mr. H. Merewether, found last year in New 

 South Wales at Cassilis, on the banks of the Mounmoura 

 Creek, a tributary of the Goulbourn River. Mr. OllifF (No. 47) 

 gives the following description of the specimen : — " It possesses 

 fifteen pairs of claw-bearing leg- appendages and a pair of oral 



