404 Mr. A. \^Tiite on Myriapoda of the genus Zephroiiia. 



inflorescentia racemosa ; racemuli in ramis novellis axillares 

 et terminates. 



1. Pterostyrax corymbosum, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Japon. i. p. 94. 

 tab. 47 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. p. 269. — In Japonise merid. mon- 

 tosis. 



2. Pterostyrax mia-anthum, Sieb. et Zucc. ; Walpers, Ann. i. 500. 

 — In Japonia. 



3. Pterostyrax hispidum, Sieb. et Zucc. ; Walpers, Ann. i. 500. — 

 In Japonia. 



XLII. — Spicilegia Apterologica. — I. Description of some 

 Myriapoda of the genus Zephronia (J. E. Gray), in the Col- 

 lection of the British Museum. By Adam White, A.Z.D. 

 British Museum. 



[With a Plate.] 



The genus Zephronia contains Millipedes from Ceylon, Borneo, 

 Natal, Madagascar, and other Asiatic and African places, beside 

 which our little "Pill-beetle" [Glomeris marginata) is a tiny 

 dwarf. Mr. Arthur Adams, P.L.S., the Naturalist of H.M.S. 

 ' Samarang,' mentions that, in the moist woods of Borneo, he. 

 Sir Edward Belcher, and Rajah Brooke found "great treasure" 

 of them among decaying vegetable matter. He found at the 

 same time some parasitic plants (perhaps of the Rafflesia group), 

 which he could not preserve, but which were vividly present to 

 his memory, as he described them. Some of the Zephronia he 

 brought, though in bad condition, were very distinct. I pur- 

 pose here to describe two or three species, now in the Museum 

 Collection. 



The genus Zephronia is a very well-marked one, first recorded 

 by Dr. Gray in Griffith's edition of Cuvier's 'Animal Kingdom.' 

 Exclusive of the head, the body consists of twelve segments, and 

 a plate, w^hich may or may not be taken as a thirteenth seg- 

 ment, though I am inclined to regard it as belonging rather to 

 the head than to the body. Professor Brandt has divided the 

 group into two genera, to which he has given the names of 

 Sphai'otherium and Spharopcms^ . He places them in his Sec- 

 tion b. of the division Pentazonia ; the section is characterized 

 by the numerous eyes being arranged in two groups, one on each 

 side of the head, by the antennae being inserted on the sides of 

 the head, and by the number of segments, to which I have 

 already alluded. His genus Spharotherium contains species 



* Bulletin delaSociete Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, vi. p. 198 

 (1833). 



