BY J. J. FLETCHER. 
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stripes above the legs will be almost entirely red, contrasting well 
with the intervening series. Interesting variations of this pattern 
arise by the partial filling in of the lozenges of the median series; 
the red may be aggregated in a little patch on each side of the 
nodose enlargement on the median dark line, or it may just fill 
in the lateral apices of each lozenge. The most complicated pattern 
arising from a secondary arrangement of (four-sided) diamonds 
may be described as follows : Two lines intersecting in each 
nodose enlargement of the median dark line cut off from a lozenge 
a pair of small diamonds, one on each side of the median line 
corresponding with the legs; and an anterior and posterior portion 
which, with the posterior portion of the lozenge preceding, and 
the anterior of the succeeding one, make up two of a single 
median interrupted series of larger diamonds, each of which 
corresponds with the interval between the legs* : the former are 
sometimes filled in with red; the latter partially. Sometimes 
the dark boundaries disappear, leaving only the patches of red. 
The light longitudinal stripe above the insertion of the legs is 
usually very distinct, but sometimes there are only indications of 
it, or it is a discontinuous series of orange or red patches above 
the intervals between the successive legs of each side. Its light 
tint may be due to the presence of light blue both in the ground 
colour, and on the primary papillae with the exception of their 
summits. 
I have seen only a very small series of the larger Victorian 
Peripatus, but as far as it goes the following slight differences 
attract my notice. The median dark longitudinal line is either 
wanting or is not so marked a feature as in our variety; and the 
unpigmented median groove is rather more conspicuous. The 
line of demarcation between the median and each lateral series of 
the mosaic is better defined; that between the lateral series and 
the longitudinal stripe is not, I think, quite so definite. The 
longitudinal stripe above the legs, except in specimens with a 
very large amount of red, is not so clearly indicated as is usually 
* That is, the interval between two consecutive legs of the same side. 
