Insecta Myriapoda found in Berwickshire. 493. 



Front rounded and minutely etnarginate in the centre: an- 

 tenna? approximate at the base, hairy, short, with 14 joints, 

 which are nearly equal, and darker at their apices: under 

 lip smooth, divided by a perpendicular line ; the mandibles 

 with dark brown claws, and a few short spines : post-occi- 

 pital segment lunate anteriorly, the angles embracing the 

 hinder part of the head : segments marked along the centre 

 of the back with two impressed lines, and on the ventral 

 aspect with a similar line on each side : legs of the same 

 colour as the body, hispid, the last pair longer. Length, 1 J 

 inch : breadth, scarcely 1 line. 



2. G. acumindtus. Body ferruginous, anteriorly gradually narrower ; head 

 castaneous, paler in front j legs yellowish brown. — Leach, in Supp. 

 Encycl. Brit., i. 431. ; Zool. Misc., 3. 45. ; Trans. Linn. Soc., 11. 386. ; 

 Sam. Ent. Comp., 116. 



Hab. Under stones ; common in many parts of Berwickshire, espe- 

 cially on the sea-shore, and in great profusion at the base of the hills 

 forming the Cheviot range. 



Body linear-elongate, the anterior quarter narrowed for- 

 wards, ferruginous, sometimes marked with a series of dusky 

 spots along the back : head quadrangular, narrowest in front, 

 not broader than the following segment, smooth, castaneous, 

 with a pale hispid margin, and a pale line across the fore- 

 head, the crown with a longitudinal dark line : eyes none : an- 

 tennae yellowish brown, short, filiform, hirsute, 14-jointed, 

 the basal joints thicker but not longer than the others, which 

 are obconic, with pale apices, the terminal one longer and 

 ovate : lip yellowish brown, smooth, broadly triangular, the 

 margin edentulous, emarginate in the centre, and sinuate on 

 each side, where the strong mandibles have their origin ; the 

 latter armed with a sharp dark brown claw with a spine at its 

 root : palpi filiform, yellowish brown : dorsal scales quadran- 

 gular, sprinkled with a few short hairs, smooth, the narrow 

 intermediate ones mammilliform on each side, the penultimate 

 and caudal somewhat enlarged, the former granulons under- 

 neath, the latter rounded, unarmed : ventral scales quadran- 

 gular, paler, somewhat hispid, an impressed line on each side : 

 legs equal, or nearly so, of a uniform yellowish brown, hispid, 

 5-jointed, the basal joint short, three next longer, subequal, 

 the fifth elongate, and terminated with a dark brown acute 

 claw. Length, 1 in. 8 lines ; breadth, not a line. 



** Antennae ivith elongate Joints. 



3. G. longicornis. Body pale yellow, tapered posteriorly ; head chestnut, 

 minutely punctured ; feet the colour of the body ; antennae slightly 

 tapered. — Leach,'m Supp. Encycl. Brit., i. 431. pi. 22. ; Zool. Misc., 3. 

 45. pi. 110. fig. 3—6.; Trans. Linn. Soc, 11. 386. j Sam. Ent. Comp., 

 117. 



Hab. Under stones ; frequent. 



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