188 IDENTITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN PERIPATUS, 
the case in ours. These differences, however, are not more 
striking than those which may be presented by a number of 
individual specimens from New South Wales found in the same 
log. 
Such slight local variations, as well as in the secondary sexual 
characters of the males, are not uncommon. I have had a good 
deal of experience now with the Peripatus of New South Wales, 
but I never yet met with longitudinally striped examples such as 
Mr. Helms got at Mt. Kosciusco, and Mr. Lea on the northern 
Tableland. On the other hand, some of my own examples are 
unlike any I have seen among those collected by others in 
localities which I have not myself visited. From one district my 
specimens are characterised by a red tail. Illawarra specimens 
commonly have a well-marked nodose median dark line, each 
nodosity standing in a rather triangular patch of red, but with 
little or no indication of a lozenge pattern; and in these specimens 
the median ventral series of white patches (ventral organs) are 
very inconspicuous indeed. It was such specimens as these that 
first came under my notice; and the relation of their colour- 
pattern to the diamond pattern of the Victorian Peripatus 
described by Dr. Dendy failed to suggest itself. I have now 
examples from other localities in New South Wales which show 
the chequer pattern as characteristically as Victorian examples. 
The males usually have papillae on all or most of the legs after 
the first pair, but among specimens from one district I find males 
with papillae on the legs of the first pair only to predominate, 
though in two other examples there is also an additional papilla 
on one leg of the second pair. In the first case crural glands 
appear to be absent from the legs of the first pair; and 
of the remainder when papillae are wanting on some of the 
legs crural pores may still be -recognisable. In the second 
case crural glands seem to be present only in the legs of 
the first pair — rarely an additional one in one leg of the 
second pair. I have seen at least thirty males with papillae 
on the legs of the first pair only. Two of these Mr. J. P. Hill, 
