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



• I have five examples of this species of different sizes. It is very common in 

 the hop-plantations in the neighbourhood of Canterbury, where it is supposed 

 to be injurious to the plant by attacking the root. This species hybernates 

 in little packets of six or eight, coiled up together in the form of a ball, in 

 holes just large enough to contain them, in light soils that have remained for 

 some time undisturbed. 



7. Geoph. Whitei, capite aurantiaco, corpore flavo-virente, segmento cephalico brevi sub- 



cordato, antennis nudis moniliformibus, labio leviter longitudinaliter cristato utrinque 

 oblique sulcato, pedum paribus 74. — Long. unc. 1^. 

 Hub. ? [v. in Mus. Brit.) 



I have named this species in honour of a zealous naturalist, Adam White, 

 Esq., of the British Museum. 



8. Geoph. simplex, Gervais in Mag. de Zool. el. 9. no. 133. p. 37, 1835. Id. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 



1837, p. 52. Lucas, 1. c. sp. 4. p. 549. 

 Geoph. linearis, Koch, Deutsch. Crtust. heft 4. no. 1. 

 Hub. In GalM. 



Legs 80 pairs. 



B. Antennae sensim acuminatae. 



9. Geoph. brevilabiatus, fuscus, segmento cephalico brevi subovato transverso, basilari sub- 



basilarique subaequalibus, labio brevissimo sublunato medio leviter cristato antice emar- 

 ginato, pedum paribus 79. — Long. unc. 2. 

 Hab. In Ora Tenasserim Peninsulae Indiae Ulterioris. {v. in Mits. Brit.) 



10. Geoph. lineatus, pallide griseus, segmentorum laterihus lineisque duabus longitudinali- 

 bus subapproximatis saturate caeruleis, capite antennis segmentoque anali rufis, pedum 

 paribus 77- — Long. unc. 3^. 



Hab. In Honduras, {v. in Mus. Brit.) 



This very beautiful species has the cephalic segment red, smooth and subcordate, the labium 

 short, smooth, and with two lateral impressions ; the dorsal plates rounded at the sides, 

 with free elevated margins, and with two blue patches between three longitudinal sulci, 

 and there is a dark blue line on each side above the spiracles. 



11. Geoph. subterraneus (Tab. XXXIII. fig. 10.), flavus, capite ferrugineo parvo, corpore 

 postice incrassato, segmento cephalico subtriangulari antice acuto, antennis flavis basi 



