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marked head and a series (14-42) of short stumpy appendages. The 

 integument is thrown into a number of fine transverse wrinkles and is 



Fig. 137. — Peripatus capensis, lateral view. (From Balfour.) 



beset with numerous conical papilla;, each capped with a little chitinous 

 spine. The head (Fig. 138) bears a pair of antennae, a pair of eyes, a 



Fig. 138. — Ventral view of head of Peripatus capensis, with antenna;, jaws, oral 

 papillae, and first pair of legs. (After Balfour.) 



pair of jaws, and a pair of short processes — the oral papilla. On the 

 surface of the oral papillae are situated a pair of glands, the slime glands. 



