430 Mr. Newport on the Class Myiiapoda, Order Cliilopoda. 



laevigato punctis raris, mandibulis quadridentatis, labio profunde punctato, corpora tes- 

 taceo, pedum paribus 49. — Long. unc. 1^. 

 Hab. In Insula Caribaea S'' Vincentii, Guilding, {v. in Mus. D. Hope.) 



There are five specimens of M. Guildingii in Mr. Hope's cabinet, and all of 

 them, although varying a great deal in size, have precisely the same number 

 of legs. 



5. Mecist. punctilabium, capite mandibulis labio segmentoque subbasilari ferrugineis, man- 

 dibulis tridentatis, corpore virescenti, segmentis posterioribus antennis pedibusque 

 ochraceis, labio dense profundeque punctato, pedum paribus 61. — Long. unc. 2. 



Mecist. punctilabium, Newp. I. c. p. 179. Id. in Ann, 5j- Mag. Nat. Hist. Feb. 1844, p. 100. 



Hab. In Insula Corcyra. {v. in Miis. Brit.) 



Genus 14. Arthronomalus*. (Geophtlus, heach. GeophiU longicornes,Gerv. 

 Subgenus Necrophlceophagus, Newport.) 



Segmentum cephalicum subquadratum, angulis rotundatis. Antenna segmento cephalico 

 triplo longiores, subapproximatse, subattenuatae, articulis inaequalibus, subconicis, in- 

 versis. Segmenti basilaris margo posterior anteriore multo latior. Labium emargina- 

 tum. Corpus subattenuatum. 



A. Segmentum cephalicum antice transversum. 



1. Arthron. longicornis (Tab. XXXIII. figs. 15, 16.), flavus, capite mandibulis labioque 



saturate ferrugineis, antennis pilosissimis segmento cephalico quadruple longioribus, 



labio elongato medio inconspicue sulcato laevi punctis raris, stylis analibus pilosis, 



pedum paribus 51 ad 55. — Long. unc. 2^-3. 

 Geophilus longicornis. Leach in Trans. Linn. Sac. xi. p. 386. Id. in Zool. Misc. iii. p. 45. 



1. 140. fig. 3-6. Id. in Enc. Brit. Suppl. i, p. 431. 

 Scolopendra fulva, De Geer, Mem. Insect, vii. p. 361. Trevir. Verm. Schrift. ii. p. 33. t. 7- 



fig. 3-5. 

 Geophilus electricus, Gerv. in Ann. Sc, Nat. vii. p. 52. Id. in Diet. Pitt. d'Hist, Nat. t. 399. 



f. 13. Lucas, I. c. p. 549. sp. 3. 

 Hab. Copiosissime in Angliae comitatibus Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, alibique. {v. in Mus. 



Brit.) 



Some specimens of this Myriapod vary in having the cephalic segment and 



* 'ApOpov, a Joint, and avufxaXos, irregular. I have thought it better to change the name of this 

 section of Geopkilida, and derive it from characters taken from the articulations of the antennse. 



