Mr. Newport on the Class Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda. 367 



This species very much resembles L.forjicahis, but is smaller and of a 

 lighter colour. The antennae are very hairy, with forty-one joints, some of 

 which are one-half longer than the others. The great characteristics of this 

 species are the number of the ocelli, the form of the dental plates, and the 

 tuberculation of the preeanal plates, which distinguish it from the British spe- 

 cies. I am not certain of the normal number of the teeth, since there is 

 only a single specimen of L. Hardwickei in the British Museum, and in this 

 the teeth are abnormal, there being only five on one plate and eight on the 

 other. 



9. Lith. longicornis, antennis corporis fere longitudine pilosis 56-60-articulatis, capita sub- 



quadrato; subsegmento antennali laevi antice angustato, ocellis parvis utrinque 10-14, 

 laminis dentalibus angustatis : denticulis 8 acutis nigris, scutis dorsalibus impressione 

 utrinque lateral! curva, pedibus nudis ; spinis subfemoralibus minutis.^Magn. Lith. 

 forficati. 



Lith. longicornis, Risso, Europ. Merid. v. p. 154 ? Gervais, Ann. Sc. Nat. Janv. IBS?, p. 49. 

 sp. 4 ? Lucas, Hist. Nat. Anim. Art. p. 543. sp. 4 ? 



Hab. ? {v. in Mus. Linn.) 



This specimen is about the size of L.forficatus, and stands beside it in the 

 Linnean cabinet. I believe it to be the L. longlcoimis of Risso, but have been 

 unable to identify it with the description given by that author, excepting as 

 regards the length of the antennae. It is a distinctly-marked species, of a fer- 

 ruginous colour, and has the fifth dorsal plate narrowed, and longer than in 

 most other species, and the angles of the plates are only slightly produced. 

 The ocelli also are few in number ; the labial teeth are black and acute, and 

 the labium is slightly narrowed and punctured. From the length of the an- 

 tennae, the slight development of the angles of the short dorsal plates, and the 

 clustered ocelli, it seems to make a near approach to the Cermatiidce. 



10. Lith. forficatus, ferrugineus, capite ovato-quadrato ; subsegmento antennali impres- 



sionibus sparsis obsoletis, antennis pubescentibus, labio laevi polito ; laminis dentalibus 

 distinctis paulo angustatis: denticulis 12minutis aequidistantibus acutis, ocellis 22-24, 

 pedibus fere nudis ; articulis brevibus ; spinis subfemoralibus nullis, squama prasanali 

 pilosissimi, scutis dorsalibus laevibus margine postico tenui angustato, lamina 5ta sub- 

 quadvata baud elongata laevisslme excavata : 7nia margine postico recto. 

 Scolopendra forficata, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. i. p. 1062. Fabr. Entom. Syst. ii. p. 390. 

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