BY J. J. FLETCHER. 
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jf P. brevis communicated by de Blainville, and given in his own 
words. From this it appears that the "quatorze paires de pattes" 
has reference only to claw-bearing legs. The oral papillae he thus 
describes — -" Quant aux appendices : la tete est pourvue d'une 
paire de tentacules simples. . . . On remarque a la partie externe 
de leur base, et par consequent de chaque cote, un stemmate ou un 
point pseudo-oculaire forme par un petit disque corde, un peu 
convexe et simple." Upon this G-ervais remarks : ' ' M. Wiegmann 
considere comme des pattes atrophiees les deux organes que MM. 
Guilding, de Blainville, Audouin et Edwards signalent comme 
des yeux." 
(4) There is nothing remarkable about the colour of the speci- 
men. I have seen specimens (with 15 pairs of legs), from Queens- 
land and New South Wales, which might be described in very 
similar or identical terms. 
(5) I do not understand the statement that " the claw-bearing 
joint which follows these segments [spinous pads], is distinguished 
by its 4-cornered appearance due to a pair of papillce at its outer 
corners, one on each side (P. capensis has three)." The statement 
as to P. capensis is borne out by Sanger's figures; and both are in 
harmony with the quite independent observations and figures of 
Sedgwick, who says that there are two primary papilla? on the 
front or anterior side of the distal end of the foot, close to the 
socket in which the claws are placed, and one on the posterior 
side. In the Australian and New Zealand species the distal end 
of the foot also has three primary papilla?, but they are differently 
arranged, one being anterior, one posterior, and one median and 
dorsal. At least two of his figures (figs. 32, 33 and perhaps 34) 
show that Sanger correctly recognised this character in the Aus- 
tralian Peripatus. His fig. 35 is certainly very satisfactorily 
4-cornered, three of the corners being furnished by the three 
papilla? in question, while the fourth is apparently an equally 
conspicuous similar primary papilla which is median and ventral; 
but with which the Australian Peripatus has not been credited 
by any other observer. Even so, the statement " a pair of papilla? 
at its outer corners, one on each side," hardly seems to express 
