. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 378 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. In Bouvier's key this species will run down to edwardsii, but it is quite different from that species in the form and arrangement of the tegumentary papillae, and also possesses a larger number of legs in the female (33-34 pairs), edwardsii having only 30-32, rarely 33 in this sex. Were it not for the presence of incomplete body folds the structure of the integument would place it close to brasiliensis, although the specimens of brasiliensis figured by Bouvier have
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 378 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. In Bouvier's key this species will run down to edwardsii, but it is quite different from that species in the form and arrangement of the tegumentary papillae, and also possesses a larger number of legs in the female (33-34 pairs), edwardsii having only 30-32, rarely 33 in this sex. Were it not for the presence of incomplete body folds the structure of the integument would place it close to brasiliensis, although the specimens of brasiliensis figured by Bouvier have the primary papillae placed farther apart and the accessory ones ascend to the ridges of the folds. The structure of the fourth and fifth legs is as in brasiliensis also, with the nephridial tubercle entirely free from the third band of the creeping pad. It appears impossible, therefore, to associate the present form closely with any described species, although it undoubt- edly falls near edwardsii while showing a striking similarity to brasi- liensis. Periyatus brasiliensis was described from Santarem, but ac- cording to Bouvier probably extends to Panama; P. edwardsii occurs from French Guiana to Colombia. The present species is not closely related to any of the forms recently described by Fuhrmann (Zool. anz., 1913, 42, p. 241-248) from Colombia. Peripatus (Epiperipatus) edwardsii Blanchard. Ann. sci. nat. Zool, 1847, ser. 3, 8, p. 140. Of this widely distributed species there are nine specimens (Coll. Univ. Mich, and M. C. Z. No. 241-244), from the Cincinnati Coffee Plantation, near Santa Marta, Colombia. As can be seen from the accompanying illustrations, there is con- siderable variation in the distribution of the integumentary papillae, particularly in the accessory ones. These latter vary much both in numbers and in distribution on the body folds, but the variation doe> not exceed that already observed by Bouvier in this species. All have the nephridial tubercles of
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