162 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



As practically no records of these classes have been made 

 from Kansas since the work of Cragin in 1885, which was of a 

 very fragmentary character, Dr. C. E. McClung suggested to 

 me that I work over the material on hand. The following 

 paper is the result, and gives the list of species collected in 

 Kansas now in the museum. Also, mention is made of all other 

 species known to me to have been previously recorded from 

 the state. Undoubtedly this list does not include all the species 

 that will be found to occur in the state, and it is my intention 

 to publish a future paper giving the results of further collect- 

 ing. 



I have not attempted to give a list of synonyms under each 

 species, but simply a reference to the original description and 

 to the latest change in name, where necessary. The grouping 

 into orders and families follows the writings of Dr. 0. F. 

 Cook for the class Diplopoda, and of Dr. Ralph V. Chamberlain 

 for the class Chilopoda. I wish to thank Professor McClung 

 for the kind assistance he has given me in the classifying of 

 this material, and in the preparation of this paper. 



Class DIPLOPODA. 



Order MEROCHETA. 



Family XYSTODESMID^. 



1. Fontaria virginiensis (Drury). 



Jiilus virginiensis Drurj', Ins. Exot., I, t. XLIII, fig. 8 (1770). 

 Fontaria virginiensis Gray. In Griffith's Animal Kingd., Ins. 

 I, t. CXXXV, fig. 1 (18.32). 

 A few of the specimens are white in color, with a dark slate-colored 

 median line extending from the third or fourth segment to the penulti- 

 mate. I judge these to be freshly moulted specimens, as there seem 

 to be no specific difl'erences otherwise. 



Habitat: Anderson Co. (E. H. Taylor) ; Cowley Co. (writer) ; Green- 

 wood, Labette and Montgomery counties (Biol. Survey) ; Wyandotte 

 Oo. (G. D. Hanna). Also reported from Shawnee Co. by Cragin, 



Family CHELODESMID^. 



2. Leptodesmus hispidipes (Wood). 



Polydesrmis hispidipes Wood. Proc. Phila. Acad., 1864, p. 7. 

 Leptodesvms hispidipes Bollman. Entom. Americ, vol. IV, p. 2 

 (1888). 

 Habitat: Cowley, Douglas and Jefferson counties (writer). 



