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



rior pair, are light orange, with the metatarsal and tarsal joints green ; the basilar and 

 posterior segments and legs are bright orange, and the cephalic and the posterior and 

 lateral margins of the dorsal segments dark green. The teeth are six, short, obtuse 

 and coalescing, the external one distinct and acute. The posterior legs are short, with 

 the basilar joint subconic, with the external margin subacute, the internal with three 

 spinulae, the apical one acute, the two anterior subapproximated. Inferior surface con- 

 vex, with three spinulae in a raised diverging series on the external margin and three 

 on the internal, the last situated on the internal surface near the articulation. Anal 

 appendages punctured, short, with the apex bifid. Preanal scale subtriangular, with 

 the posterior margin straight. 



Formerly I regarded this as a variety of C. fVesttcoodii, but it is quite di- 

 stinct, although it resembles that species in the structure of the posterior legs. 

 It is one of the most beautiful of the genus. 



10. Corm. pallipes, pallide virens, antennis pedibusque flavescentibus, margine dentali 

 arcuato ; dentibus 8 obtusis, pedum postremorum articulo femorali convexo brevi sub- 

 quadrato spinulis 3 : superficie inferiore spinulis 4 in margine externo 2que in interno. 

 — Long. unc. 1|. 



Hub. In Insula Van Diemen et in Nova Zealandia. [v. in Mm. Brit.) 



The cephalic segment is flattened, subquadrate j mandibular tooth large ; dental plates arched, 

 short; teeth eight, obtuse; posterior pair of legs short, thick, with three spinuke on 

 the internal superior margin; inferior surface with four spinulae in an irregular series 

 on the external and two on the internal margin. Lateral appendages slightly elon- 

 gated. Preanal scale with the margin straight. 

 This is a species that may readily be mistaken at first for the young of 

 C. SLibmhnatus or C. aurantiipes. I believe it however to be distinct, as the 

 specimens from Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand correspond in size 

 and general appearance, and differ from the young of a closely-allied species, 

 Cfoccundus, which, however small, always approach somewhat in colour to 

 the adult specimens. 



11. Corm. violaceus, capite corporeque pallide olivaceis violaceo tinctus, antennis caeruleis, 

 mandibulis labioque aurantiacis, articulis tarsalibus viridibus, dentibus 8 nigris fere 

 obsolete pedum postremorum articulo femorali subconico tibiali longiore spinulis 3 in 

 margine interno 2que superficialibus ; superficie inferiore spinulis 4 in margine externo 

 2que in interno. Long, unc 2]. 



Hub. In Novd Zealandia, prope Wellington. (* in Mus. Brit, et D. Hope.) 



