BY J. J. FLETCHER. 
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Demonstrator of Biology, Sydney University, very kindly section- 
ised for me. The legs did not ail cut in an equally satisfactory 
manner; but allowing for this, beyond a large pair of crural 
glands in the two papilla-bearing legs, I can see no indication of 
their presence in the others. I have not seen any specimen with 
papilla? on the legs of the last pair only. When papilla? are 
present on the legs of the last pair they are situated nearer the 
base of the leg than in the case of the others. This, however, is 
because the legs of the fifteenth pair are shorter, and consequently 
have fewer transverse papilla-bearing ridges. The papilla? still 
occupy the normal portion — namely, on about the fifth papilla- 
bearing ridge above the innermost spinous pad. 
In a previous paper (P.L.S.N.S.W. 2nd Ser. v. p. 484) I referred 
to the presence in some females of longitudinal slit-like depressions 
or pores situated a little below the nephridiopores, and suggestive 
of rudiments or relics of crural glands. They are not, however, 
the representatives of the crural glands of the males, for I now 
have specimens of the latter, both with numerous crural papilla? and 
with only one pair which show the same character. In the males 
they are situated between the nephridiopore and the papilla when 
present, or the position it would occupy if present. Occasionally, 
even in the females, a little white coagulated secretion is left in 
the aperture. Unless these represent a second series of crural 
glands which were possessed by both sexes, but are now becoming 
more or less aborted, I do not at present know what they can be. 
The ova are large, and have a considerable amount of yolk. 
As in P. capensis, the egg-shell is a thin transparent membrane; 
not a thick chitinous covering as in P. novce-zealandice, and in the 
larger Victorian Peripatus. 
There is some difference in detail in respect of the breeding 
habits of the New Zealand Peripatus and that of ISew South 
Wales as known to me; and in neither case is it so easy, as in 
that of P. capensis, to fix definitely the length of the period of 
gestation, or the exact limits of the breeding season; and, I should 
imagine, for a similar reason. 
