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what less unsatisfactory than New Holland. I should take it to 
mean that the type specimen was found within the limits of New 
South Wales, somewhere between S}^dney and Cassilis — at which 
place Mr. Olliff obtained the otherwise first recorded specimen 
from this colony — or thereabouts, but not much further to the 
west or north-west of the latter. It is hardly probable that over 
thirty years ago Peripatus was found in the then newly separated 
colony of Queensland at any spot in a direction N.W. from 
Sydney, say to the north of Bourke. Not only would such a 
locality then have been very much less easy of access to a 
zoological collector than it is now; but it would, I should think, 
be one with a climate altogether too dry for Peripatus. This 
being so, it is a curious fact — not however without a parallel, — 
that so long ago somebody should have casually found somewhere 
in this colony a single specimen of Peripatus with 14 pairs of 
walking legs, but that similar specimens, whether from New South 
Wales or Queensland, notwithstanding much collecting, should 
still be desiderata. Sedgwick has probably had to do with more 
individual specimens of Peripatus than all other naturalists 
put together ; and yet among the specimens — " more than a 
thousand from the Cape Peninsula" — which came under his 
notice, P. brevis, de Blainv., was conspicuously absent, and in the 
flesh was unknown to him at the time the Monograph was written. 
In the Macleay Museum is a specimen of a Peripatus with 15 
pairs of walking legs, labelled Tasmania, to which Mr. Masters 
directed my attention in 1890 (P.L.S. N.S.W., 2nd Ser., Vol. v., 
p. 469). At that time Mr. Masters considered that it had been 
at least ten years in the collection, and he still thinks that the 
correctness of the reputed locality is not open to question. The 
label is in his own writing, but he is unable to recall the exact 
circumstances under which the specimen came to hand. Recently 
Prof. Baldwin Spencer was successful in finding Peripatus in 
Tasmania, but some fifteen specimens obtained had 14 pairs of 
claw-bearing legs apiece. 
(2) It was not Prof. Leuckart's intention to furnish a technical 
description of his specimen. On the other hand Sanger's descrip- 
tion was about as full as it could be expected to be under the 
