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last segment ; nineteenth segment with distinct carinte, the processes 

 much smaller than on the eighteenth ; last segment not concealed, 

 apex very broad and rounded, dorsally rough like the other seg- 

 ments, two distinct notches on each side ; color black, legs, antennae, 

 and anal valves, white; length 7 mm,; width 1.5 mm.; locality, 

 Gede, West Java, 9,000 feet. 



Myxodesmus lobatus. 



AVith general resemblance to Pronodesmus and Napodesvms. Dor- 

 sum with four equal longitudinal rows, each of three conic tubercles 

 on each segment ; pores located as in Pronodesmus ; lateral carinse 

 with three deep, narrow incisions, one in the lateral margin, two in 

 the posterior, dividing the carina? into three distinct lobes ; tubercles 

 of the caudal segments not larger than those of the others ; last 

 segment apically broad, entire, exposed ; color black above, antennae, 

 legs and anal valves white; length 4.5 mm., width .9 mm. ; locality, 

 Goenoeng Filoe, West Java, at an altitude of 8,000 feet. 



Cynedesmus formicola. 



First segment clypeate, concealing the head, the surface covered 

 with rounded granules of different sizes, the anterior margin thin, 

 flattened, forming a projecting horizontal rim ; segments covered 

 with rounded granules somewhat regularly arranged, and with four 

 equal longitudinal rows of three larger granules on each segment ; 

 pores much as in Stegodesmus, on a special process from the poste- 

 corner of the areate carinse of segments 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16 ; 

 last segment large, broad and rounded at apex, with six small lobes 

 or scallops; color pinkish-brown, with fine black points; length 

 7 mm., width 1.25 mm. ; locality, Grand Canary, in the nests of 

 ants, at Telde and at Guia. 



