352 Mr. Newport on the Class Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda. 



with a single ventral geginent. The legs are margined on their upper and 

 under surfaces with longitudinal ridges of spinulse, and the coxa, femur, tibia 

 and tarsal joints are armed at their distal extremities with elongated spines. 

 The posterior pair of legs are always greatly elongated, the metatarsi are very 

 long, and formed of a great multitude of short joints, and the femoral, tibial 

 and tarsal joints are annulated with dark-coloured fascioe. 



These characters are found in the species of the continents of Europe, Asia, 

 Africa and America, as well as in those from Australia and the islands of 

 Ceylon, New Zealand and the West Indies. 



Tribus 1. Schizotarsia, Brandt. 



Famiiia 1. Cermatiid^, Leach. 



Scuta dorsalia 8 ; singulo segmenta 2 ventralia obtegenti. Scutorum stigmata mediana. Pedes 

 antennaeque multiarticulatre. 



Genus 1. Cermatia, I Wig. 



Caput transversum. Oculi prominentes. Scuta dorsalia cmarginata. Stomata latere in- 

 crassata. Pedes antennaeque longissimce. 



1. Cerm. coleoptrata, capite scutellisque virescentibus aspcris longitudinaliter saturatiiis tri- 

 fasciatis, ventre pedibusque flavescentibus; articulis femoralibus tibialibusque anguste 

 saturatius biannulatis, pedum pari postremo corpore bis longiore : articulo metatarsorum' 

 basali secundo quater longiore secundoque tertio bis longiore. — Long. lin. 9. 



Scolopendra coleoptrata, Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th edit. ii. 1062. 



lulus araneoides, Pallas, Spic. Zool. fasc. 9. tab. 4. fig. 16. 



Cermatia lineata, Illiger. 



Scutigera coleoptrata, Lamarcit, Anim. sans Vert. 



Scutigera lineata, Dufour, Annal. des Sc. Nat. t. xi. p. 92. 



Cermatia livida. Leach, Zool. Misc. iii. p. 38. 



Scutigera araneoides, Latr. Hist. Nat. des Crust, et Ins. t. i. p. 77- 



Scutigera livida. Gray, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, pi. 1. {Insects) fig. 2. 1832. 



Cermatia livida, Heineken, Zool. Journal, vol. v. 1833, p. 41. 



Scutigera araneoides, Gervais, Ann. des Sc. Nat. t. vii. 1837- p. 48. 



Scutigera araneoides, Lucas, Hist, des Anim. Artictd. t. iv. p. 537. 



Cermatia coleoptrata, Templeton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. iii. part 4. p. 307- 



Cermatia coleoptrata, Newp. in Ann. ^ 31aff. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 95. 



Hab. In Hispania et Ins. Madeira, {v. in Mus. Linn, et Brit.) 



