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



laevigata punctis raris, mandibulis quadridentatis, labio profundi punctato, corpore tes- 

 taceo, pedum paribus 49. — Long. unc. 11. 

 Hab. In Insula Caribaea S tJ Vincentii, Guilding. {v. in Mus. D. Hope.) 



There are five specimens of M. Guildingii in Mr. Hope's cabinet, and all of 

 them, although varying a great deal in size, have precisely the same number 

 of legs. 



5. Mecist. punctilabium, capite mandibulis labio segmentoque subbasilari ferrugineis, man- 

 dibulis tridentatis, corpore virescenti, segmentis posterioribus antennis pedibusque 

 ochraceis, labio dense profundeque punctato, pedum paribus 61.— Long. unc. 2. 



Mecist. punctilabium, Newp. I. c. p. 179. Id. in Ann. §■ Mag. Nat. Hist. Feb. 1844, p. 100. 



Hah. In Insula Corcyra. (v. in Mus. Brit.) 



Genus 14. Arthronomalus *. (Geophilus, Leach. Geophili longicornes, Gerv. 

 Subgenus Necrophloeophagus, Newport.) 



tegmentum cephalicum subquadratum, angulis rotundatis. Antenna segmento cephalico 

 triple* longiores, subapproximatae, subattenuatas, articulis inrcqualibus, subconicis, in- 

 verse. Segmenti basilaris margo posterior anteriore multo latior. Labium emargina- 

 tum. Corpus subattenuatura. 



A. Segmentum cephalicum antice transversum. 



1. Arthron. longicornis (Tab. XXXIII. figs. 15, 16.), flavus, capite mandibulis labioque 

 saturate ferrugineis, antennis pilosissimis segmento cephalico quadruple* longioribus, 

 labio elongato medio inconspicue sulcato laevi punctis raris, stylis analibus pilosis, 

 pedum paribus 51 ad 55.— Long. unc. 21-3. 



Geophilus longicornis, Leach in Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. p. 386. Id. in Zool. Misc. iii. p. 45. 



- 1. 140. fig. 3-6. Id. in Enc. Brit. Suppl. i. p. 431. 



Scolopendra fulva, De Geer, Mem. Insect, vii. p. 361. Trevir. Verm. Schrift. ii. p. 33. t. 7. 

 fig. 3-5. 



Geophilus electricus, Gerv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. vii. p. 52. Id. in Diet. Pitt. d'Hist. Nat. t. 399. 

 f. 13. Lucas, I. c. p. 549. sp. 3. 



Hab. Copiosissime in Angliae comitatibus Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, alibique. (v. in Mus. 

 Brit.) 



Some specimens of this Myriapod vary in having the cephalic segment and 



••'ApBpoy, a joint, and a^aXos, irregular. I have thought it better to change the name of this 

 section of GeopktM*. and derive it from characters taken from the articulations of the antenn*. 



