Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: January 1901
Containing the single family Peripatidae, now divided into about four genera. A single specimen is on record from Sumatra, and Mr. H. N. Ridley informs me. That the Skeat expedition recently obtained it in the Malay Peninsula. This very interesting animal has somewhat the general external appearance of a caterpillar it has a pair of antennae, and in the Sumatran Specimen 24 pairs of legs (t. Sedgwick, Cambridge Nat. Hist., vol. V, 1895, p.
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