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diagnostic characters in Humbert and de Saussure’s description, and upon my posses- 
sion of a specimen of 8. pomacea from Cuernavaca, whence S. o/meca was obtained. 
6. Scolopendra punctiventris. (Tab. II. figg. 6, 6 a-c.) 
Scolopendra punctiventris, Newport, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 100 (1844) *; Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xix. p. 887 (1845) *; Cat. Myr. Brit. Mus. p. 83 (1856) °; Gervais, Ins. Apt. iv. p. 277 
(1847) *. 
Scolopendra inequidens (Gerv.), Wood, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. (2) v. pp. 24, 25 (1868) ° ; 
Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. xiii. pp. 162, 163° (?? inequidens of Gerv.). 
Scolopendra woodii, Meinert, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xxiii. p. 198 (1886) *. 
Colour: tergites olivaceous or ochraceo-olivaceous, with posterior margin, especially in the middle, deeper 
olivaceous ; head, first tergite, and maxillipedes olivaceous or pale castaneous; legs ochraceous, posterior 
legs distally pale olivaceous ; sternites ochraceous with olivaceous tint ; antenn# pale olivaceous, distally 
paler. 
Body moderately robust, but little narrowed in front and behind, smooth, polished. 
Head longer than wide, ovate, with nearly straight posterior border, not suleate. 
Antenne short, attenuate, composed of 17 segments, whereof the basal 6 or 7 are naked, and the next 
pubescent. 
Mawillipedes smooth or very indistinctly punctured ; prosternal plates almost in contact, long, about as long 
as broad, the anterior border oblique and cut out into four distinct teeth, whereof the three internal are 
approximate ; femoral tooth large and subdentate. 
Tergites: the first marked anteriorly with a transverse arched sulcus, and posteriorly with two fine, sub- 
parallel, longitudinal sulci; all the rest, except the anal, also marked with two longitudinal sulci; the 
first 16 or 17 with simple unraised margins. 
Sternites smooth, except the first and last, strongly bisulcate. 
Anal somite: tergite with a faint longitudinal suleus ; pleure furnished with larger and smaller, not close-set 
pores ; the process long, slender, cylindrical, smooth, and tipped with four spines, without lateral spine ; 
sternite with sides strongly converging posteriorly, straight or lightly concave hinder margin ; legs some- 
what short, only a little longer than the preceding pair, moderately stout, the femur armed with 9 or 11 
spines—3 (1 superior) on the upper-inner edge, 2 on the under-inner edge, and 2, 2 in pairs on the under- 
outer edge, and sometimes 2 small spines at the proximal end of the segment; process long, stout, and 
tipped with three spines ; tarsus unspined, claw spurred. 
Legs with spurred claws but with tarsi unspined. 
Length up to 43 millim. 
Hab. Nortu America‘, Eastern States, Florida !°.—MeExico, Tampico in Tamaulipas 
(Richardson), Omilteme in Guerrero 7000 to 9000 feet (H. H. Smith). 
This species was described by Newport from a Floridan specimen which is still 
preserved in the British Museum. 
Dr. Meinert? records it from North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Massachusetts, 
so it is evidently not uncommon in the Eastern States of North America. Mr. Smith’s 
specimens were found under rotten wood, &c., about clearings and in the forest. 
There is no doubt that the synonymy given above is correct. The error of ascribing 
the species to S. viridis of Say is to be laid to Wood’s charge. Dr. Meinert followed 
Wood without questioning his synonymy. 
S. punctiventris may be recognized at once from S. viridis of Say by the entire 
absence of tarsal spurs on all the legs. 
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