356 Mr. Newport on the Class Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda. 



These characters distinctly show that this is not the S. longicornis of Fabri- 

 cius, which is described with " antennae corpore duplo longiores,jlavve" and the 

 body as " supra fuscus lined dorsali femigined, sitbtus Jlavescens." General 

 Hardwicke's species has two longitudinal fascire, and the antennae are only 

 one-third longer than the body. As the specific name employed by General 

 Hardwicke is thus referable to a species already described, I have changed the 

 name of his species to Cerm. Hardwickei. 



8. Cerm. longicornis, Fabr. Entom. Syst. ii. 1793, p. 389. 

 Hab. In Tranquebaria. 



9. Cerm. Guilclingii, brunnea, fascia unica lata flava, stigmatibus dorsalibus ore nigris, pedum 



pari postremo metatarsis longissimis : articulo basilari secundo triplo longiore : femo- 

 ribus annulo unico : tibiis articulisque tarsi biannulatis. — Long. lin. 9. 

 Hab. In Ins. Caribcea S w Vincentii. (v. in Mus. D. Hope.) 



This species is very closely allied to Cermatia longitarsis, and may readily be 

 mistaken for it, as the metatarsal joints are equally long as in that species, but 

 it seems to differ in the relative lengths of the first and second basilar joints. 



1 0. Cerm. longitarsis, virescens, fascia longitudinali unica mediana pallidiore, capite parvo ; 

 fronte piloso, pedibus postremis corpore plus duplo longioribus ; metatarso reliquo 

 membro duplo longiore, pedibus flavis annulis duobus latissimis violaceis in quoque 

 articulo femorali tibialique. — Long. unc. 1. 



Cerm. longitarsis, Newp. in Ann. 1$ Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 95. 

 Cerm. longipes, Lam. Anim. sans Vert. v. p. 29. ? 

 Hab. ? (v. in Mus. Brit.) 



The most marked characters of this species are the single longitudinal dorsal fascia, the great 

 length of the metatarsal joints of the posterior pair of legs, and the breadth and dark 

 colour of the annuli, which cover the chief portion of the legs. The antenna? are one- 

 fourth longer than the body. The spines on the scutella are ranged on the dorsal sur- 

 face in two somewhat approximated waved median series, but are distributed irregularly 

 over the other portions of the scutella. The margins of the scutella are very slightly 

 waved, and the marginal spines are small, acute and somewhat approximated: the 

 coxa? of the legs are very short and thickly punctured. 



This specimen, in the British Museum collection, was found in a bottle, which 

 seems to have formed part of the original collection of Sir Hans Sloane. 



