Mr. Nkwport on the Class M\ riapoda. Order < hilopoda. 



colour, and also in the itractare <>i' the posterior pair of legi, and in the greatei 



length of the antenna 1 , which have twenty articulations. 



The posterior legs arc convex on the upper surface with the margins rounded. 



and the spinuhe arranged almost an in v. cwgulata. 



24. Scol. Hispanica, late olivacea, legmentorum marginibui 



perficie vcntrali mandibulis labto pedibutque lumntUM is. pari pottremo viridi ; articulo 

 basali infra spinulis tribus acutis, dentibus labuUibui LO nigrifl obtusit. — Long, unc, 



Hab. In Ilispania australiore. (v. in Mus. Brit.) 



This species resembles S. cingulata, but is quite distinct from it. The heed is small* i. 

 tennae shorter, and posterior legs more convex. Thecephal 



subcordate; labium smooth, flattened, narrowed; dental plates lubquidrtte, verj di- 

 stinct, with the margin rounded; teeth distinct, ten, black ; posterior pair of legs with 

 the femoral and tibial joints equal, smooth, and somewhat flattened 00 the npp< t 

 face, with the external margin rounded; internal margin with five spinuhe. the four 

 posterior ones arranged in two oblique series, two in cad 

 gated, with the apex trifid. Inferior surface with three spinu! 



a single series. 

 There are two examples of this species in the Museum collection, in < 

 of which the posterior legs appear to have been reproduced, as the spinuhr 

 are irregular, smaller, and more numerous; this is a condition which repro- 

 duced limbs frequently exhibit. 



(b.) Antenna 1 8-articulata?, articulis elong&tis; pedum pari postremo gracili, articulo femo- 



rali infra spinoso. 



25. Scol. subspinipes, testacea (?), segmentorum marginc postcriore viridi, pedum peril 

 postremi articulo primo secundoque srqualibus subcomplanatis interne acute trie] 

 sis: spina secunda infra apicalem. — Long. unc. 4. 



Scol. subspinipes, Leach in Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. p. 383. Id. in Zool Misc. iii. p. 11. Id. 

 in Enc. Brit. Suppl. p. 440. 



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



Head flattened, cordate, ovate ; basilar segment large ; labium convex, smooth ; dental [.late- 

 short, transverse, slightly convex, and punctured ; teeth eight, short, obtuse, the 

 nal one on each side bifid, mandibular tooth moderate. Lateral anal append.* 

 of the posterior pair of legs) short, ferruginous, punctured, with the apex trifid, and 

 directed inwards. Preanal scale elongated, triangular, with the margin slightly round- 

 ed, and impressed with a longitudinal sulcus; superior surface of the femoral, or 



