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MYRIAPODA. 



Newport's Memoir on the Nervous and Vascular Systems 

 of the Myriapoda has been spoken of in the Introduction. 



CHILOGNATHA. Lucas (Ami. d. 1. Soc. Eut. d. Fr. 2 scr. i, p. 43) has 

 instituted a new genus, Platydesmtts, resembling Polydesmns, in the form of 

 the rings of the body, but differing from it in the small triangular head, the 

 presence of eyes, and the suctorial oral apparatus ; the new species, PI. 

 polydesmoides, is from Guatemala. 



Newport has instituted two new English species, Julus sandwicensis 

 (Proceed. Ent. Soc. Loud. p. 66), and I. jrilosus (ib. p. 69), and farther, 

 Spirotreptus antipodarum (Dieffeub. Trav. ii, p. 270), from New Zealand. 



CUILOPODA. Templeton has communicated a short paper on Cermatia. 

 (Transact. Eut. Soc. Lond. iii, p. 306.) He divides the genus into two 

 groups, (a) Body elongated, distinctly broader in the middle : (1) G. ara- 

 neoides, Pall. ; (2) C. longicornis, Hardw., from Bengal ; (3) C. nolilis, n. 

 sp., from the Mauritius and India ; (4) C. coleoptrata, Lam., from the South 

 of Europe ; (5) C. capensis, n. sp., from the Cape. (b) Body short, and 

 nearly of uniform breadth ; (6) C. longipes, Lam. 



Scolopendra rubriceps, from New Zealand, has been instituted as a new 

 species by Newport. (Dieff. Trav. ii, p. 270.) 



