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Psyche 
[September-December 
Speleoperipatus speleus new species 
Holotype deposited in invertebrate collections of the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Type locality: Jamaica, 
Clarendon Parish, Pedro River, Pedro Great Cave. Type data: 
20 December 1972, S. B. Peck. Paratypes: all from same locality; 
one, 25 March 1973, R. Norton and R. Zimmerman (deposited in 
Peabody Museum, Yale University) ; two, 17 August 1974, S. Peck 
and family, in Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Description. Eyes absent, no trace remaining. Depigmented; 
specimens in life pale, almost white, with a slight greenish-yellow 
cast (Fig. 8). Legs and “antennae” not appreciably elongated. 
Holotype 34 mm long, with 22 pairs of legs. Paratypes: One 27 mm 
Figures 1-6. 1. Location of genital opening in Peripatopsidae, Peripa- 
toidinae. 2. Location of genital opening in Peripatidae, Peripatinae. 3. 
Ventral surface of left fourth leg of Oroperipatus koepckei (after Zilch, 
1954b) showing urinary papilla dividing the third band of the creeping 
pads, and four foot papillae (fp). 4. Ventral side of right fourth leg of 
Heteroperipatus engelhardi (after Zilch, 1954a) showing urinary papilla 
between creeping pads three and four, indenting pad four, and three 
anterior and one posterior foot papillae (fp). 5. Outer blade of right 
mandible of Speleoperipatus spelaeus. 6. Inner blade of right mandible of 
S. spelaeus. 
