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Transactions. 



1. Henicops maculata Newport, 1845. (Figs. 1 to 5.) 



Henicops maculata Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 19, p. 372, pi. 33, 

 fig. 37 ; pi. 40, fig. 3 (1845) : id., Cat. Myr. Brit. Mus., p. 22. 

 Haase, Die indisch-austral. Chilopoden. Abhand. Dresden Mus.., 

 No. 5, p. 36 (1887). Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.. 6th ser., vol. 8, 

 p. 154 (1891) ; id., 6th ser., vol. 11, p. 125 (1893); id., 7th ser. r 

 vol. 8, p. 453 (1901). Hutton, Index Faunae Novae Zealandiae, 

 p. 235 (1904). 



Colour (in spirit) above yellowish-brown, each tergum with an irregular 

 broad dark edging and a median broad dark band. The general appearance 

 of the dorsal surface is thus a light groundwork with three longitudinal 

 dark bands. The head is also dark around the margin. 



Fig. 5. — Presternum. Fig. 5a. — loth leg. Fig. 56. — Gonopods of ? 



Antennae : the joints range in number from 30 to 37, varying evenly 

 around 34. Prosternum (fig. 5) with praecoxal processes rounded anteriorly, 

 teeth uniformly 3 + 3. Tergites anteriorly with rounded angles and with 

 the posterior borders slightly emarginate, the emargination and the acute- 

 ness of the angles increasing posteriorly. Tibial spur on legs 1 to 14. Legs 

 long and hairy, the tarsi with 2 -\- 2 spinules beneath, set at the distal ends 



