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cially in the anterior and middle region of the body, but tending to 

 be reduced to an indistinct impressed dot caudad. Plates punctate. 



Last ventral plate strongly narrowed caudad. Caudal margin con- 

 spicuously and somewhat angularly incurved. A weak median longi- 

 tudinal sulcus. 



Only the first 5 pairs of legs with 2 tarsal spines. 



Coxopleural process long and subcylindrical, ending in 2 points. 

 Lateral spines 3, of which the two most proximal are larger than the 

 distal one. Also with i stout dorsal spine. (See Fig. 7.) 



Length, cir. 20 mm. 



Locality. Moluccas : Ternate. One specimen. 



This species appears to be nearest in structure to 0. puncti- 

 venter (Tomosvary), above listed. It differs from that species 

 in having the last ventral plate more conspicuously narrowed 

 caudad ; in the longer and more strongly marked sulci of the 

 ventral plates ; and in various minor points. 



I. Trematophychus immarginata (Porat). 



Locality. Upper Burma: Katha and Tagourg (December 

 19 and 20, 1906). Java: Buitzenzorg. 



This species is widely distributed in the East Indies and ad- 

 jacent lands, having been reported previously from Sumatra, 

 Borneo, India and the Philippines. 



8. Trematophychus longipes (Newport). 

 Locality. Java : Buitzenzorg. 



This species is distributed throughout the tropical regions 

 of both hemispheres. 



9. Ethmostigmus rubripes (Brandt). 

 Locality. Dutch New Guinea. 



Also known from Australia, Java, Thursday Islands and 

 China. 



10. Ethmostigmus cribrifer (Gervais). 



Localities. 'Moluccas ; Ceram Is. ; Wuhaai ; Halmaheira Is. ; 

 Sain. 



Originally described from this same general region. 



SCOLOPICNDRIPAE. 



II. Scolopendra morsitans Linne. 



Localities. Dutch New Guinea. Java : Buitzenzorg. 

 A cosmopolitan species. 



