DESCRIPTION OF PERIPATUS OVIPARUS. 
laying. The time of development may, however, have been pro- 
longed by the exposure to artificial conditions. The , eggs were 
laid between the middle of May and the end of July. 
In the male the genital papilla is situated in the same position 
as in the female, but is much less prominent. On either side of 
it, in the angle between the leg and body, is a white papilla bearing 
the aperture of an accessory gland. Behind it and just in front 
of the anus are a pair of apertures belonging to other accessory 
glands. Crural glands occur in all the legs from the second to 
the thirteenth, and possibly also in the fourteenth. The aperture 
of the crural gland is situated on the under-surface of the leg, 
and the nephridial aperture lies inside it, except in the fourth and 
fifth legs. The white papilla which bears the aperture of the 
crural gland may be either prominent or sunk in a depression, 
according to the state of contraction, and hence the number of 
these white papilla? on the under-surfaces of the legs may appear 
to vary in different specimens. I have been unable to find any 
crural glands in the female. 
I have a number of males in my possession, and I assume that 
they belong to the same species because they were found in the 
same localities as the oviparous females, while no viviparous females 
with fifteen pairs of legs have yet been found in Victoria. The 
males exhibit the same range in pattern and colouration as the 
females. 
It is unnecessary in this place to describe the general internal 
anatomy of Peripatus oviparus; suffice it to say that it conforms 
closely to the usual condition as described in other species. 
