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m sharp contrast with the light-bluish hue of the mouth-parts, which are 

 concolorous with the head and body. The entire animal is of a more delicate 

 structure than is usually seen ev.en in small specimens of the genus. The 

 refiexed antennae cover about four segments of the body. The length is a 

 little over an inch. These characters will suffice to distinguish this variety of 

 morsitans, if I am right in referring it to that species; but I shall elsewhere 

 give the details of its form and armature. 



"Newport states that the range of S. morsitans includes the tropical and 

 subtropical portions of the New World, and an unknown portion of China. 

 In view of the many subtropical features in the fauna of Southern Kansas 

 that have already come to light, the discovery of this species in that region 

 need be hardly a matter of surprise. Our specimen was found under a stone 

 on the summit of a high hill in Barber Co., al)out 500 feet above the Medicine 

 River at Medicine Lodge." 



Bollman (1, pg. 174) lists this variety as a synonym of S. morsitans, but 

 states that it may not be such, as Cragin's "description is so indefinite that it is 

 almost impossible to tell to what species it may belong." This record for the 

 species has evidently been accepted by Chamberlin (3, pg. 479), as he says, 

 "In the United States known from Georgia, Florida, Kansas. Utah, and Cali- 

 fornia." It is probably best to let it stand until more extensive collecting 

 in the southwestern part of the state has cleared the matter up. There is no 

 specimen referable to this species in the collection, nor one which corresponds 

 to Cragin's description. 



Scolopendra polymorpha Wood. 



Recorded from Rice, Finney and Barber Cos. by Cragin. There are 

 three si)ecimens in the collection, but with>no labels. 



A corrected list of the known Myriapoda occurring in Kansas at this 

 writing would be as follows : — 



DlPI^OPODA. 



Fontaria virginicnsis (Drury) ; Leptodcsmus hispidipcs (Wood) ; Lcpto- 

 desmus placidus (Wood) ; Oxidus gracilis (C. L. Koch) ; Polydesmus pinctortim 

 Bollman; Polydesmus scrratus Say; Scytonotus yranulatus (Say); Cleidoyona 

 sp. ; Lysiapotalum lactarium (Say); Arctobolus marginatus (Say); Parajulus 

 diversifrons (Wood) ; Parajidus imprcssus (Say) ; Parajulus vcnustu,^ ( Wood). 



Chi Lo POD A. 

 Scutigcra forceps (Rafinesque) ; Litlwbius forficatus (Linnaeus); Litho- 

 bius transmarinus. Koch; Nadabius jowensis (Meinert) ; Tidabius kanscnsis 

 (Gunthorp)-; Pokabius bilabiatus (Wood)'; Otocryptops sexspinosus (Say); 

 Scolopendra lieros Girard ; Scolopendra morsitans, Linnaeus; Scolopendra poly- 

 morpha Wood; Arenopliilus bipitiicficcps (Wood); Arcnophilus osporni Gun- 

 thorp -fieophilus doUchocephalus Gunthorp ; Geophilns mordax Meinert ; Lino- 

 taenia fulva (Say). 



■iLitJioMus kansensis Gunthorp. (6, pg. 166). This species should be placed in 

 the genus Tiflnbius recently created by Chamberlin (4, i)g. SO). 



■■■Lithohius bildbiatus- Wood. Proc. Phil. Acad., 1867, p. 130. 

 Poahius bilahiutus Chamberlin. Ann. Entoni. Soc. Amer., 5: 153, 1912. 

 Pokdbins bihtbidlux Chamberlin, Canad. Entoni. 14: 316. 1912. 



