306 LILIAN SHELDON. 



the body, being apparently modified in connection with the 

 male generative organs. 



These organs have all been previously described by Professor 

 Balfour (1). 



In none of the legs of Peripatus novae zealandiae, of 

 which I examined sections, did I find any crural glands, either 

 in the male or female. 1 took legs from the various parts of 

 the body in both sexes, and in all cases the segmental organs 

 were present, and the legs contained a much larger supply 

 of muscles than those of P. capensis, but there were no 

 traces of crural glands in any case, even in the last leg of the 

 male. 



In P. Edwardiis Gaffron (2) states that the crural glands 

 are absent in the female, but are present in some of the 

 segments of the male, there being in some of them two 

 pairs. 



Segmental Organs. 



In Peripatus novae zealandiae the external aperture of the 

 generative apparatus is placed on the ventral surface of the 

 body in front of the last (fifteenth) pair of legs. In this pair 

 of legs there are no segmental organs, so that the generative 

 ducts are apparently the modified segmental organs of the last 

 segment. 



In Peripatus capensis, in which the generative aperture is 

 situated at the posterior end of the body, immediately in front 

 of the anus and behind the last pair of legs, segmental organs 

 are present in the latter. 



In P. novae zealandiae, as was described in P. capensis by 

 Professor Balfour (1), the segmental organs of the fourth and 

 fifth pair of legs are much larger than the rest. 



Accessory Glands of the Male. 



In p. capensis, in addition to the enlarged crural glands 

 of the last pair of legs, the male generative apparatus is 

 provided with a pair of glandular tubes, which lie on each 



