[568] The drawings on Pl. 47, figs. 9 and 10 on Pl. 48, and the drawings of the embryos (except fig. 37), have been made by Miss Balfour since Professor Balfour's death.
[569] Proc. Royal Soc. 1883.
PART I.
Description of the Species.
Peripatus capensis (fig. 1).
[The body is elongated, and slightly flattened dorso-ventrally. The dorsal surface is arched, and darkly pigmented; while the ventral surface is nearly flat, and of a lighter colour.
The mouth is placed at the anterior end of the body, on the ventral surface.
The anus is posterior and terminal.
The generative opening is single and median, and placed in both sexes on the ventral surface, immediately in front of the anus.