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Psyche 
[March 
ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF ONYCHOPHORA 
FROM THE ISLAND OF HAITI 
By Charles T. Brues 
Biological Laboratories, Harvard University 
When he visited Haiti several years ago Dr. P. J. Darling- 
ton, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, obtained speci- 
mens of Onychophora from a number of localities in the 
Republic of Haiti. These proved to represent five distin- 
guishable forms of the genus Peripatus s. str. Two of these, 
P. manni Brues and P. dominicx Pollard, var. haitiensis 
Brues had been previously described by the writer from 
material collected by Dr. Wm. M. Mann. 1 
The other three are additional forms of P. dominicx 
and were described as varieties by the writer from Dr. 
Darlington’s material. 2 
Quite recently Dr. Austin H. Clark 3 described another 
species belonging to the related genus Macroperipatus from 
Haiti as M. insularis. This augments the list of Haitian 
Onychophora to six, including two genera and three species, 
one of the latter with four named varieties. 
Last autumn Dr. Darlington again visited Haiti, this time 
extending his investigations eastward into the north and 
central portions of the Dominican Republic. There he se- 
cured series of Peripatus at five additional localities. 
An examination of these series shows them all to be refer- 
able to P. dominicx Pollard, var. basilensis Brues previously 
known from Mount Basil in the northwestern part of the 
island. 
The distribution of basilensis is thus greatly extended by 
this material as indicated below. 
(1) Mt. Diego de Ocampo, Northern Range, Dominican 
Republic. 3500-4000 feet (July 1938) . One specimen, quite 
typical, but with 30 pairs of legs instead of 28 as in the type. 
(2) North slope of Loma Rucilla, Central Range, Domin- 
iBull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. 54, pp. 519-521 (1913). 
2 Psyche, vol. 42, pp. 58-62 (1935). 
3Proc. U. S. National Mus., vol. 85, No. 3027, p. 3 (1937). 
