chamberlin: west Indian chilopoda and diplopoda. 167 



forty articles and the second of seventy-five while the number in the 

 third is not ascertainable since it is broken oflF a little above its base, 

 only about thirty-two articles being present. 



First tarsus of first legs composed of nine or ten articles, the second 

 tarsus of twenty-six. Second division of tarsus of eighth legs con- 

 sisting of but twenty articles, the first of only six or seven. 



The gonopods of general form of those in the Gonethdla nesiotes 

 but the second or free article longer. The second division strongly 

 chitinous, dark, uncate. 



Length, 9 mm. 



55. PsELLioPHORA FLAViPES (Bollman). 

 ScuHgera fiavipes Bollman, Bull. 46, U. S. N. M., 1893, p. 200.i 



Habited. — Andros: Mangrove Cay (O. Bryant). San Salvador ^ 

 [Watlings]. 



56. PSELLIOPHORA PULCHRITARSIS Vcrhoeff. 

 Sitz. Gesellsch. nat. freunde Berlin, 1904, p. 279.i 

 Habitat. — Haiti.^ 



57. PSELLIOPHORA CUBENSIS, Sp. UOV. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 1,881. Cuba: Guantanamo, 1912. Paratijpcs.— 

 M. C. Z. 1,882, 1,883. Cuba: Rio Seco in San Carlos, 1914. C. T. 

 Ramsden. 



This is a large species of characteristic color markings b^- which it 

 is separable at once from the related P. pulchritarsis of Haiti. The 

 dorsum is on each side deep chocolate-brown, often vaguely marbled, 

 a much narrower light median longitudinal stripe extending over the 

 entire length of the body including the head. This median pale 

 stripe embraces a dark stripe not quite so deep in color as the sides, 

 this stripe occupying most of the width of the pale band; the included 

 dark stripe over the middle somites may be geminate by a fine pale 

 longitudinal line, and in all the band is geminate on the stoma saddles. 

 The pale area on the head posteriorly occupies the entire width between 



