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IDENTITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN PERIPATUS. 
circumstances; the situation of the genital aperture, the number 
of the spinous pads (soles), and the arrangement of the 
primary papilla? on the claw-bearing joints of the legs, all being 
duly noted. Moreover, he gives six figures of various parts of the 
specimen. His examination of it was therefore of a more or less 
minute character, and it is hardly possible that he should have 
incorrectly counted the number of the walking legs. 
(3) The onry reference to the description of P, brevis, de Blainville, 
[not Blanchard] given by Sclater and Sedgwick — besides de 
Blainville, " Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles," Supplement, 
T. i., p. 237, Paris, 1840, which I am unable to consult — is the 
footnote to Gervais' paper " Etudes pour servir a l'histoire 
naturelle des Myriapodes " in the Ann. Sc. Nat. (2), vii., p. 38, 
1837. This, however, is but the abbreviated description, quoted 
by Sedgwick (Monograph, p. 168), which mentions " pourvu de 
quatorze paires de pattes," but does not disclose what view de 
Blainville took of the oral papilla?, nor exactly what the fourteen 
pairs were to be understood as comprehending. In Gervais' paper 
" Sur le Genre Peripate "* is incorporated a detailed description 
* Ann. Franchises et Etrangeres d' Anat. et de Physiol. T. ii. p. 309, 
1838. Abstract in Revue Zoologique, par la Soc. Cuvierienne, Annee, 
1838, pp. 264-265. 
In the same paper (pp. 314 and 310) Gervais says " celui qu' a vu M. 
Macleay etrait de Cuba," having previously stated " et M. Macleay, qui en 
parle d' une maniere transitoire dans un note publie depuis plusieurs annees, 
dit aussi qu' ilsont des rapports avee les vers et en meme temps avec les 
Myriapodes (Zoological Journal)." Sedgwick (I.e. p. 197) remarks, "Blan- 
chard refers to a Peripatus found in Cuba by Mr. Macleay. He regards 
it as belonging to the species juliformis. I have been unable to find any 
account of this Cuban species." 
The only reference to Peripatus by W. S. Macleay I can find in the 
Zoological Journal is contained in a postscript to a letter written from 
Havanna to Mr. Vigors (Vol. iv. p. 278). It takes exception to Guilding's 
view of Peripatus as a mollusc, suggests other affinities, and adds "There is 
a specimen in my father's collection " [at that time in Australia]. But it 
seems to me to offer no ground for associating the record of a Cuban species 
with W. S. Macleay's name. 
