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sivainsonse was elevated to specific rank under Peripatus 
s. s. In the time which has elapsed since the discovery of 
Peripatus at Bath, single specimens have been found at 
three other widely separated localities on the island. F. S. 
Conant collected an example of P. jamaicensis at Blue Hole 
near Port Antonio on the north coast in the summer of 
1897 ; E. A. Andrews found P. swainsonse near the Great 
River east of Montego Bay in 1910 and again at a locality 
very near Kingston, above Constant Springs, in 1932. All 
three of these specimens are to be found in the museum col- 
lection of the Johns Hopkins University. Peripatus has 
thus far been taken at five widely separated points in Ja- 
maica which, if connected by straight lines, would surround 
Figure 1 — Outline map of Jamaica showing the six known local- 
ities for the Onychophora in that island. + = Peripatus swainsonae; 
0 = Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis. 
an area embracing more than half the island. However, as 
Andrews points out, it is by no means certain that the ani- 
mal occurs in all or much of this intermediate area. All 
five of the known localities are at relatively low altitudes, 
1.000 feet or less, and the presence of Peripatus in the cen- 
tral mountain chain with its highest peaks rising to over 
7.000 feet, has remained to be established. 
It was therefore with great interest that the writer, dur- 
ing the past summer, came upon Peripatus in the heart of 
the Blue Mountains at an altitude of nearly 5,000 feet. 
While collecting the eggs of the toad Eleutherodactylus 
nubicola (in connection with an embryological study aided 
by a grant from the National Research Council) a speci- 
