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over 2 inche^> in lcnj(tli and barely r'i> inch in thickness, is 
Orphuaetts brevilabialus. It is phosphorescent and is frequently 
seen in houses^ on mosquito curtains and such like places. On 
account of its small size it is probably quite harmless to man. 
Uncanny creatures are the species of ScuttgefiL They have 
exceedingly long spider-like legs with which they are able to 
move about with incredible speed- A specimen caught in the 
Lunatic Asylum, in 1 897, presented by Dr. H. J. Gibbsp is 
exhibited. 
We add here a rare and curious creature, the Petipatus. 
which is generally placed into a class by itself, the Protracheata, 
It shows in its structure an interesting mixture of features, ils 
tracheae indicating a relationship tu the Tntcheaia, and its 
excretory organs, the so-called * nephridia tu the worms (or 
more correctly speaking, lu the Annelids). There are several 
species of it. They all have a soft and worm-like body. The 
head which, however, is nut sharply marked olT from the rest of 
I he body, carries a pair each of ring-like antennae, of jaws and 
oral papillae, simple eyes and a mouth. They have short and 
stumpy legs which in, the different species vary from 17 to 43 
pairs, each of 1 hem bearing two claws. They are therefore also 
called OnyihQphoro. The skin is velvety and is thrown into 
niimerous folds covered by minute papillae. They live in damp 
places, beneath the bark of trees, under stones and rotten logs 
of wood. Their food consists of insects which they capture 
with the sticky slime squirted out from their oral papillae. 
The first species of Peripahts was described from the 
Antilles, but others were afterwards discovered in South 
America, South Africa, Australia, Sumatra and finally also in 
the Malay Peninsula. The memters of the Skeat Expedition 
found it in 1899 tm Bukil Besar near Patani and at Kuala Artng 
Kelantan, and Butler discovered soon after a specimen on the 
Larut Hills, Perak. The specimen in the Museum was pre- 
sented by Mr. Kloss who had found it on the Sekudai Road* 
.1 oho re, about 1 6 miles north of johorc Bahru, in May 1 905. It 
is apparently identical with, ur closely allied to Eoperipaim 
btitkrL It has twenty-three pairs of feet, and its length is 
63 mm i = 2^i inches). 
