Mr. Newport on the Class Myiiapoda, Order Chilopoda, 355 



6. Cerm, Downesii, brunnea, linea unica angusta mediana fasciisque duabus latis lateralibus 



longitudinalibus saturatioribus, scutellis asperis margine undulatis, pedibus ochraceis : 

 coxis annulo caeruleo unico : femoribus annulis duobus latis : tibiisque duabus obscuris : 

 metatarsis rufescentibus articulo basilar! primo secundo quater et ampliiis longiore, 

 pedum pari postremo corpore bis longiore. — Long, unc, l^. 

 Hab. In India Orientali, Nemuck. [v. in Mus. D. Hope.) 



This species very greatly resembles C. nobiiis, and may be readily mistaken 

 for it. But it differs in having a median dark line instead of a yellow one, and 

 in the length of the basilar joints of the metatarsi, the first of which in all the 

 legs is thrice as long as the second ; while in Mr. Templeton's figure they are 

 represented as being of equal length in C. nobiiis. This character alone is 

 sufficient to distinguish the two species. I have named this species in honour 

 of Downes, Esq., Assistant Surgeon in the Honourable East India Com- 

 pany's Service. 



7. Cerm. Hardwiclcei, viridis, fascia utrinque longitudinali brunneft, antennis rufescentibus 



coi"pore tertia parte longioribus, pedibus apice aurantiacis violaceo-annulatis ; pari pos- 

 tremo corpore bis longiore : articulo metatarsorum primo secundo duplo longiore.— 

 Long. unc. Ij'^. 



Cerm. longicornis '^ , Hardw. in Linn. Trans, xiv. p. 131. 



Cerm. Hardvvickei, Newp. loc. cit. p. 95. 



Hab. In India Orientali, Hardwicke. {v. in Mus. Brit.) 



Head with a triangular depression behind the eyes, with three impressed lines on the face, 

 as in C. coleoptrata ; labrum and front hairy ; labium divided by a deep median suture, 

 thinned at the dental margin, and covered with very fine hairs ; dorsal plates very con- 

 vex, with the middle portion elevated, and covered on each side with four or five irre- 

 gular longitudinal series of v&xj minute spines ; posterior border of the plates deeply 

 emarginated and more rounded than in C. coleoptrata, with the marginal spines strong, 

 uniform and very acute. Praeanal scale elongated, quadrate, and armed with a pair of 

 curved, unidentated, sharp-pointed forciples. Inferior surface of the legs with a few 

 scattered fine hairs. The antennae are not annulated, as represented in the drawing in 

 the 'Linnean Transactions,' vol. xiv. tab. 5. fig. 1, In General Hardwicke's original 

 drawings in the British Museum, MSS., vol. 11,002. no. (19.) 86, the longitudinal 

 middle portion of the plates is of a light red, or orange colour, and the metatarsi are 

 orange-coloured, except in the posterior pair of legs, which are annulated throughout ; 

 the basilar joint of the metatarsus of the posterior pair of legs is twice as long as the 

 second joint. 



