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DESCRIPTION OF PERI PAT US OVIPARUS. 
By Arthur Dendy, D.Sc., Professor of Biology in the 
Canterbury College, University of New Zealand. 
In my presidential address to the Biological Section of the 
Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, at the 
meeting recently held in Brisbane, I pointed out certain facts 
which had lately come to light with regard to the literature of 
the Australian species of Peripatvs, and which might render 
necessary certain alterations in the nomenclature. At the same 
time I still refrained from attaching a specific name to the 
oviparous Victorian species, pending further evidence. After my 
address was written I had the opportunity of talking over the 
matter with Mr. J. J. Fletcher in Sydney, and found that he had 
independently arrived at conclusions very similar to those con- 
tained in my manuscript. Mr. Fletcher suggested that we should 
each contribute a paper on the subject to the next meeting of 
this Society, and that in my contribution I should confine myself 
to the egg-laying Victorian species, which we agreed should now 
receive a name. In accordance with this suggestion I now submit 
a description of the species in question, for which I propose the 
name Peripatus nviparus. 
Ver} r fortunately, while I was in New South Wales, my friend 
Mr. Thos. Steel, F.C.S., was successful in finding a large number 
of the viviparous species with fifteen pairs of claw-bearing legs. 
These I was able to examine both alive and by means of dissec- 
tion, and I have thus satisfied myself that the oviparous Victorian 
form is certainly worthy of a distinctive name. 
