11(3 MODERN SYSTEM. 



Tlie Other species are described in the eleventh volume of the 

 Transactions of the Linnean Society. 



Stuips 2. — Legs on each side twenty-one. 



Genus 7. CRYPTOPS. Leach. 



Antenna: conic-setaceous, composed of (seventeen) globose-suhconic 

 joints: under lip not denticulated; anterior margin scarcely emar- 

 ginate : hinder legs with the first joint toothless : et/es obscure. 



Sp. 1. Ciyj). horlensis. Testaceous-ferruginous: back deeper in co- 

 lour: antenna; and legs hairy. 



Scolopendra liortcnsis. Donovan's Brit. Ins. Cryptops hortensis. Leach, 

 Edin. Enci/cl. vii. -108. — Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. — Supp. to Enci/cl. Brit. i. 

 431. pi. 2'2.—Zool. Misc. iii. tab. 130. 



inhabits gardens in and near Exeter. It has likewise been found near 

 Plymouth in Devonshire. 



Fam. II. Geophilid.i. Leach. 



JBw/y with each segment bearing tvvo legs: hinder legs not distinctly 

 longer than the others : legs many, varying in nimiber in the same 

 .species. 



Genus 8. GEOPIIILUS. Leach. 

 Ei/es obscure: {lip divided by a fissure?) mandibles strong: antenna 

 cylindric in some, towards the apex gradually somewhat narrower in 

 others; composed of (fourteen) subcylindric joints a little narrower 

 at their base. 



* Antenna with short joints. 



Sp. 1. Geoph. carpophagns. Head, antenna^, and arms fulvescent : body 

 violet, anteriorly yellowish : legs pale yellowish. Xar. fi. Body ob- 

 scurely svdjviolet-testaeeous, anteriorly subtestaceous. 



Geophilus carpophagus. Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 384. — Supp. to 

 Encycl. Brit. i. 431. — Zool. Misc. iii. p. 43. 



Inhabits Devonshire, in garden Iruit : it is not uncommon. 



Sp. 2. Gcoph. subterraneus. Body yellow: head subferruginous. 

 Scolopendra subtcrranea. Share, Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 7. Geophilus sub- 

 terraneus. Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. 385. — Zool. Misc. iii. p. 44. 

 Inhabits the earth. It is very conmion in England. 



Sp. 3. Geoph. acuminatus. Body ferruginous, anteriorly gradually nar* 



rower ; head anteriorly, and tlic legs paler. 

 Geophilus acuminatus. Leach, Trans. Linn. Suc.yA. 386. — Zool. Miscrii. 



p. 45. 

 Inhabits moss and beneath the groiuul. It is rare. 



