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IDENTITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN PERIPATUS, 
within a thin hyaline membranous shell. The breeding season, at 
any rate as to its termination, would seem to be in agreement in 
the two cases. 
Several living examples forwarded at the same time, unfortu- 
nately in the same enclosure as the spirit specimens, miserably 
perished on the journey. 
3. P. leuckarti, Sang., var. orientalis. 
P. leuckarti, Sang., of authors, but not of Sanger; nor the 
larger Victorian Peripatus of Dendy. 
With 15 pairs of walking legs; outer jaw-blades with one 
accessory tooth or with several. Length of largest specimens 
extended after drowning — £. 50 mm.; 29 mm. (the antennse 
being excluded). 
Nab. — [Queensland*]; New South Wales (not yet found west 
of the Dividing Range). 
I now possess a fine series of specimens from this Colony, but it 
does not include a single specimen normally with 1 4 pairs of claw- 
bearing legs. Of one specimen the legs of the fourteenth pair are 
without claws, while the fifteenth pair is represented by a pair of 
small white symmetrical stumps, between which, however, the 
generative aperture is placed : I should suppose that this specimen 
was recovering from some injury to the hinder end of the body. 
I have several times seen a specimen with one leg on one side 
missing. 
My series presents a very remarkable variety of colour and 
pattern. The specimens might very well be sorted out into 
something like ten distinguishable, but more or less gradational, 
lots. If the whole of the median series — with the exception, of 
course, of the very dark median line — be filled in with red, the 
mosaic of lozenges then becomes very distinct, as in that case the 
* My remarks must be understood as applying more particularly to the 
Peripatus of New South Wales, as I have had the opportunity of examining 
only a few Queensland specimens ( S 's), and no observations on the breeding 
habits of the Queensland Peripatus are known to me. 
