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PEELIMINARY NOTE ON SOME PHEEODEILIDAE FEOM THE 
WELLINGTON MOUNTAINS, SOUTH AFEICA. 
By E. J. GoDDARD, B.A., D.Sc, Zoology Department, Stellenhoscli. 
(Finally received December 6, 1913.) 
In this brief note I record the existence of several species of Phreo- 
drilids from Sneuw Kop, near Wellington. They were obtained at a height 
of about 4,500 ft. Although they have not been investigated anatomically 
yet, it is clear from the body form and the nature of the setae that several 
species are represented. 
One form is much larger than any of the previously described forms 
from South Africa, and its ventral setae are all simple, with no indication 
of a notch. Several smaller forms are characterized by ventral setae, 
one of which in each bundle is markedly notched. In another small form 
all of the ventral setae of the anterior two-thirds of the body are small and 
simple, with no indication of a notch, while in the posterior body region 
the setae are much larger and one of each bundle is strongly notched. 
It is of some interest that the writer has never yet failed to obtain 
representatives of the family on any of the south-western mountains above 
3,000 ft., but has not yet obtained any representatives on the low land. 
It is hoped to obtain many more representatives when the biological 
survey of the mountains has progressed further. 
One other point of interest is that all the South African forms yet 
obtained have been taken on mountains separated from each other by 
only a few miles, and on no mountain has a species occurring on its neigh- 
bour been discovered — a fact not without significance in its bearing on 
the problem of distribution of the family. 
