192 Transactions. 



Genus Ethmostigmus Pocock, 1898. 



Heterostoma (nom. praeocc.) Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 19, 

 p. 275, 1844. Dacetum (nom. praeocc.) C. L. Koch, Syst. Myr. 

 p. 156. 1847. Ethmostigmus Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. 7, vol. 1, p. 327, 1898 ; Kraepelin, Mit. Mus. Hamburg, 

 vol. 20, p. 155, 1903. 



Ethmostigmus platycephalus Newport. 



Heterostoma platyccphala Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 19, p. 415, 



1845. H. platyccphala -j- var, lugubre Haase, Abhandl. Mus. 



Dresden, vol. 5, p. 92, 1887. H. brownii + var. gracile Haase, 



ibid., p. 94. ? H. viridipes Pocock, Ann. Mac/. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 



vol. 7, p. 56, 1891. H. loriae Silvestri, Ann. Mus. civ. Genova, 



vol. 34, p. 631, 1894. H. platycephalnm Attems, Semon's 



Forschungrcise, vol. 5, p. 509, 1898. Ethmostigmus platycephalus 



Pocock, Willey's Zool. Results, pt. 1, p. 62, 1898; Pocock, Ann. 



Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 1, p. 327, 1898 ; Bibaut, Abhandl. 



Senckenb. gesellsch., vol. 34, p. 284, 1912; Kraepelin, Mit. Mus. 



Hamburg, vol. 22, p. 162, 1903; Attems, Bijdr. dierJc, vol. 20, 



p. 4, 1915; Chamberlin, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. 64, p. 21, 



1920. 



There is a dried specimen of this species in the Canterbury Museum, 



with, however, no record of locality. It was probably on account of this 



specimen that Hutton included the species in the Index Faunae Novae 



Zelandiae, and it seems more likely that it was an immigrant than a native 



species. It differs from the typical E. platycephalus in the following 



details : Fifth leg with 2 tarsal spines (1st to 4th legs missing) ; the left 



coxopleura with 3 spines dorsally, the right with 2. (The coxopleurae 



extend beyond the last sternite by twice the length of that sternite, and 



meet together behind in the usual manner.) 



Ethmostigmus rubripes (Brandt). 



Scolopendra rubripes Brandt, Bull. Sci. St. Petersb., 1840, p. 156. 



Heterostoma sulcidens Kohlrausch, Archie naturg., vol. 47, p. 59, 



1881. ? H. crassipes Silvestri, Ann. Mus. civ. Genova, vol. 34, 



p. 632, 1894. Ethmostigmus rubripes Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist., ser. 7, vol. 8, p. 459, 1901 ; Kraepelin, Mit. Mus. Hamburg, 



vol. 22, p. 161, 1903 ; Fauna sudw. Austr., vol. 2, p. 108, 1908 ; 



Brelemann, Records Austr. Mus., vol. 9, p. 44, 1912 ; Kraepelin, 



Arkiv. Zool, vol. 10, No. 2, p. 8, 1916 ; Chamberlin, Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool, vol. 64, p. 22, 1920. 



The Canterbury Museum has a specimen found at Christchurch in 1901 



among timber imported from Australia. E. platycephalus, noted above, 



was probably introduced into this country in a similar manner. 



SCOLOPENDRIDAE. 



Genus Cormocephalus Newport, 1844. 

 Cormocephalus Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 19, p. 419, 1844 ; 

 Kraepelin, Mit. Mxis. Hamburg, vol. 20, p. 181, 1903. 



Key to New Zealand Species of Cormocephalus. 



Ventral spines of anal femur 3 in number, in a single row . . C. rubriceps Newp. 



Ventral spines of anal femur 4 in number, in two oblique rows. . C. violascens (Gerv.). 



