490 Insecta Myriapoda found in BerisoicJcshire. 



hairs; when mature, and after it has been exposed to the 

 air, dusky brown or reddish, with a series of black spots 

 along each side ; but, when young and subterraneous, it is 

 pure white, or only tinged with brown, and the lateral pores 

 are scarlet or bright orange : head hispid in front : eyes 

 pale : antennae white, sometimes spotted with brown, hispid, 

 more decidedly clavate than in any of the preceding species : 

 basal joint minute, the second and third longest and equal, 

 fourth and fifth also equal, the penultimate shorter, ovate, the 

 terminal one small : segments about fifty in a large individual, 

 not forty in a smaller one, smooth on the back, but the sides 

 are marked with faint striae : anal segment without a mucro, 

 but brought to a very minute point : legs tinted with red or 

 pellucid white, hispid. 



This is narrower in proportion to its length than any of 

 the other species. I have seen specimens of a bright red 

 colour, and others are piebald. The pretty white variety is 

 common at the roots of flowers in gardens the soil of which 

 is clayey. In drying it changes to a dusky pink colour, and 

 when preserved in spirits becomes blackish. I should have 

 considered it the same as /. pusillus of Dr. Leach, had I ever 

 seen an individual marked with two rufescent lines ; but no 

 such character has been noticed in the numerous specimens 

 examined; whereas, from being introduced in the specific 

 character, it would seem to be constant in Dr. Leach's species. 



3. Craspedoso^ma Leach. 

 1. C. Raulinsii. * Back fuscous brown, with four lines of white spots : belly 

 and legs reddish." Leach, in Suppl. Encycl. Brit., i. 430. pi. 22. ; Sam. 

 Ent. Comp., 114. — Zulus Raulinsw Leach, in Edin. Encycl., vii. 407. j 

 Zool. Misc., 3. 36. pi. 134. f. 1—5. ; Trans. Linn. Soc, 11. 380. 

 Hab. Under stones, the bark of trees, and in moss; rare. 



Body ten lines in length, cylindraceous, slightly tapered 

 near the tail, blackish, with a grey or hoary gloss, covered 

 with a few scattered hairs, most abundant on the posterior 

 segments : head small, flat, dusky brown, punctulated behind: 

 eyes black, granular : antennae dusky brown, the two basilar 

 joints rufescent, hispid, basal joint very small, the second and 

 fourth twice as long, the third and fifth longest, and the sixth 

 and seventh short, nearly equal, forming together an ovate 

 head : post-occipital segment paler than the head : segments 

 transverse, roughish, marked with an impressed line down 

 the centre, protuberant on each side, narrower underneath, 

 where, consequently, the interstitial spaces are most obvious : 

 caudal segment without a mucro: legs brown, duskier to- 

 wards the claws, hirsute. The "four lines of white spots" 

 are very obscure, and escaped our observation until they were 



