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the effect that “The occurence of Onychophora in Jamaica 
is, however, so far as known, restricted to the Blue Moun- 
tains as none have been discovered in other parts of the is- 
land/’ Possibly this error is based upon a misunderstand- 
ing as to the locality of Bluefields, which in spite of the 
name is far distant from the Blue Mountains. 
The great altitudinal range of Plicatoperipatus jamai- 
censis revealed by the present record is noteworthy. Un- 
fortunately exact altitude records have not been given for 
most of the 60 or 70 described species of Peripatus. The 
greatest elevation reached by any species seems to be that 
attained by Paraperipatus lorenzi Horst which was re- 
ported from the Wichmann Mts. of Dutch New Guinea at 
10,000 feet. Oroperipatus cameranoi (Bouvier) was col- 
lected in the region of Sigsig and Cuenca, Ecuador at an al- 
titude of 2,550 meters (7,287 feet) and Peripatus manni 
Brues was recently recorded from near La Vesite, La Salle 
Plateau, Haiti at 5,000-7,000 feet. Peripatoides ( Ooperi - 
patus) oviparus (Dendy) is known from a number of locali- 
ties in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia and Helms 
(1890) records it from Mt. Kosciusko in the latter province 
at an altitude of 5,700 feet, in a region frequently covered 
with several feet of snow for four or five months in the 
year. In addition to these Onychophora which are defi- 
nitely recorded at considerable elevations in various parts 
of the world it is quite probable that a number of others of 
the Andean and Australasian forms may have come from 
comparable altitudes and that a careful check-up of the ele- 
vations of all the localities from which they are reported 
would reveal this. As to the altitudinal distribution of 
single species, however, less information is available. The 
present record extends the range of P. jamaicensis from 
sea level (the Blue Hole locality) to 5,000 feet. This range 
is rivaled by that of another Caribbean form Epiperipatus 
biolleyi (Bouvier) from Costa Rica which was found by M. 
P. Biolley near San Matteo at 250 meters and later by Pi- 
cado at an altitude of 2,000 meters. Other instances of 
comparable ranges could undoubtedly be culled from the 
literature. For example Peripatopsis moseleyi Wood- 
Mason, which is found at Riet Vlei, Natal, at 5,000 feet has 
