PERIPATUS FROM COLONIA TOWAR, VENEZUELA (Grube).—With twenty-nine to thirty-one pairs of ambulatory legs. Named P. EDWARDSII by Grube. PERIPATUS FROM SANTO DOMINGO, NICARAGUA (Belt).—With thirty-one pairs of ambulatory legs. PERIPATUS FROM DOMINICA (Angas).—Neotropical _Peripatus_, with twenty-six to thirty (Pollard) pairs of ambulatory legs. PERIPATUS FROM JAMAICA (Gosse).—With thirty-one and thirty-seven pairs of ambulatory legs. PERIPATUS FROM SANTARAM.—Neotropical _Peripatus_, with thirty-one pairs of ambulatory legs. PERIPATUS FROM CUBA.—No details. {26}PERIPATUS FROM HOORUBEA CREEK, DEMERARA (Quelch).—With thirty pairs of legs. PERIPATUS FROM MARAJO (Branner).—No details. PERIPATUS FROM UTUADO, PORTO RICO (Peters).—With twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-one, and thirty-two pairs of legs. PERIPATUS FROM SURINAM (Peters).—No details. PERIPATUS FROM PUERTO CABELLO, VENEZUELA (Peters).—With thirty and thirty-two pairs of legs. PERIPATUS FROM LAGUAYRA, VENEZUELA (Peters).—No details. PERIPATUS QUITENSIS (Schmarda).—From Quito, with thirty-six pairs of legs. PERIPATUS FROM SUMATRA (?). P. SUMATRANUS (Horst).—_Peripatus_ from Sumatra, with twenty-four pairs of ambulatory legs, and four spinous pads on the legs. The primary papillae of the neotropical character with conical bases. Generative opening between the legs of the penultimate pair. Feet with only two papillae.[9] SUMMARY OF DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES— Slopes of Table Mountain, neighbourhood of Williamstown, Plettenberg Bay—Cape Colony—Natal. DISTRIBUTION OF THE AUSTRALASIAN SPECIES— Queensland—Australia. North and South Islands—New Zealand. ORIENTAL REGION (?)— Sumatra. DISTRIBUTION OF THE NEOTROPICAL SPECIES— Nicaragua. Valencia Lake, Caracas, Puerto Cabello, Laguayra, Colonia Towar—Venezuela. Quito—Ecuador. Maccasseema, Hoorubea Creek—Demerara. Surinam (Peters). Cayenne. Santarem, Marajo, at the mouth of the Amazon—Brazil. Chili. And in the following West Indian Islands—Cuba, Dominica, Porto Rico (Peters), Jamaica, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Trinidad. MYRIAPODA BY F. G. SINCLAIR, M.A. (FORMERLY F. G. HEATHCOTE) Trinity College, Cambridge. {29}CHAPTER II MYRIAPODA INTRODUCTION–HABITS–CLASSIFICATION–STRUCTURE–CHILOGNATHA–CHILOPODA– SCHIZOTARSIA–SYMPHYLA–PAUROPODA–EMBRYOLOGY–PALAEONTOLOGY. _Tracheata_ with separated head and numerous, fairly similar segments. They have one pair of antennae, two or three pairs of mouth appendages, and numerous pairs of legs. The Myriapoda are a class of animals which are widely distributed, and are represented in almost every part of the globe. Heat and cold alike seem to offer favourable conditions for their existence, and they flourish both in the most fertile and the most barren countries.