408 Mr. Newport on the Class Myriapoda, Order Cliilopoda. 



belongs to Scolopocryptops, and C. Savignii, described by Leach himself, has 

 the femora of the posterior pair of legs spined. 



1. Crypt, australis, flava, capite an tennis mandibulis labio segmentoque postremo auran- 

 tiacis, scutis dorsalibus lateraliter rotundatis antice transverse sulcatis impressionibus- 

 que 4 longitudinalibus, pedibus flavis pubescentibus ; articulis femoralibus tibialibus 

 tarsalibusque squalibus. — Long. unc. \yo' 



Hub. In Insula Australi Novae Zelandiae. {v. in Mus. Brit.) 



This specimen is interesting from its being the first Cryptops hitherto ob- 

 tained from the southern portion of the globe, and I have in consequence named 

 it from this circumstance. It was collected by Mr. Percy Earl. The posterior 

 pair of legs have been lost from the only specimen I have yet seen, but it never- 

 theless affords sufficient marks of distinction. It is a somewhat thick species, 

 and the body is a little enlarged posteriorly. The cephalic segment agrees 

 well in form with that of C. hortensis, but is a little more contracted in front, 

 and has a slight depression between the insertions of the antennae : the labium 

 is perfectly smooth, without teeth, but with a slight longitudinal suture, and 

 the mandibles are obscurely punctured. 



2. Crypt, nigra, caerulescentl-nigra, labio superficieque ventrali flavis, mandibulis antennis 



pedibusque ferrugineis ; postremis espinosis brunneis nigro-annulatis, ocello unico nigro 

 pone antennas. — Long. unc. 2^, 

 Hub. In India Orientali. [v. fig. inter Icon. Hardw. in Mus. Brit. vol. 1 1,002. pi. 90. no. 23.) 



The drawing from which I have named and described this species is dated 

 May 30, 1820 ; and when it is stated that General Hardwicke's drawings were 

 all made in India from recent specitnens, they may be regarded as nearly cor- 

 rect, certainly as to colouring, although in minute anatomical details there may 

 occasionally be errors. Thus in the figure above described there are twenty- 

 one joints to each antenna, but in every other respect the figure is that of a 

 true Cryptops. A similar mistake occurs in the figure of Scolopendra Hardwickii 

 in the same collection, as I have proved by comparison with the species itself. 



3. Crypt, hortensis (Tab. XXXIII. figs. 23, 24.), ferruginea, capite subovato antice an- 



gustato, labio impressione profunda triangular! in sulcum longitudinalem desinente, 

 antennis pedibusque pilosis, articulis femoralibus inermibus subconicis tibiali longiori- 

 bus, squama praeanali elongafa quadrata postice rotundata. — Long. unc. 1. 



