Archet. — Notes on New Zealand Chilopoda. 



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In addition, Haase describes the penultimate pair of legs as the longest, 

 with 2-jointed metatarsus and 3- jointed tarsus ; the last legs have an 

 undivided metatarsus and a peculiar club-shaped tarsus, formed, it is 

 thought, by the fusion of the terminal claw with the tarsus. Only a single 

 much-mutilated specimen is known. 



SCOLOPENDROMORPHA.. 



These notes on the Scolopendromorpha are intended as a preliminary 

 revision of the New Zealand members of the order, and therefore descriptions 

 of New Zealand species published in papers abroad are quoted in full. The 

 species recorded herein are from very few localities, and many more areas 

 must be searched before anything like a complete revision can be attempted. 

 That the South Island is better represented than the North Island with 

 regard to the new species of Cryptops described is due to the energetic 

 collecting of Mr. T. Hall and Mr. T. B. Smith, to whom my thanks are due. 



CRYPTOPIDAE. 



Genus Cryptops Leach, 1814. 



Cryptops Leach. Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 11, p. 384, 1814 ; Newport,. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 19, p. 407, 1845 ; Kraepelin, Mit. Mus. 

 Hamburg, vol. 20, p. 32, 1903. 



Key to New Zealand Species of Cryptops. 



I. First tergite with a transverse sulcus anteriorly, or with its 



anterior end overlapped by the head. 



A. Coxopleural pores 50 or more, reaching to the 



hinder end of the coxopleura 



B. Coxopleural pores 20 at most, not reaching to 



the hinder end of the coxopleura. 



1. Head with sulci. 1st tergite without 



transverse sulcus 



2. Head without sulci, 1st tergite with 



transverse sulcus 



II. First tergite without sharply defined transverse sulcus 



anteriorly, always with its anterior margin overlapping 

 the hinder edge of the head. 



A. Anal tibiae armed ventrally with many teeth 



arranged in several rows ; 1st tergite with 

 Y-shaped sulcus 



B. Anal tibiae armed ventrally with only one row 



of at most 16 teeth ; 1st tergite without sulcus. 



1. Coxopleurae with only 30 pores. 



a. Anal femur bare dorsally 



b. Anal femur dorsally with 



spinescent setae 



2. Coxopleurae with more than 30 pores. 

 a. Dental formula of anal legs 



O. spinipes Poc. 



C. zelandicus Chamb, 

 C. megalopora Haase. 



approximately 1 + 9 + 4. 



a 1 . Anal metataisus with 



ventral dilatation . . 



a 2 . Anal metatarsus with 



straight ventral edge 



b. Dental formula of anal legs 



approximately 1 + 12 + 7. 



6 1 . Coxal pores 40 to 50. 

 a Anal legs slender 

 £ Anal legs stout 



b 2 . Coxal pores 100 or 

 more . . 



c. Anal legs with 6 + 5 teeth 



C. polyodontus Att. 



C. australis Newp. 

 C. galidus n. sp. 



C. ignivia n. sp. 

 C. algidus n. sp. 



C. dilagus n. sp. 

 C. akaroa n. sp. 



C. pclorus n. sp. 



C. lamprethus Chamb. 



