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



2. Arthron. punctiventris, flavus, capite saturate ferrugineo, antennis flavis breviusculis 



pilosis minute punctatis, labio piano quadrato profunde punctata, mandibulis minute 

 bidentatis apice nigris, appendicibus analibus lateralibus magnis punctis pilosis pro- 

 funde impressis, pedum paribus 66 pilosissimis.— Long. unc. If. 



Necrophlceophagus punctiventris, Newp. in Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. 1. c. p. 101. 



Bab. In Sicilia. (v. in Mus. Brit.) 



3. Arthron. carpophagus. 



Geophilus carpophagus, Leach in Linn. Trans, xi. 385. Id. in Zoot. Misc. iii. Gerv. Ann. 



Sc. Nat. 1837. Lucas, Hist. Nat. Anim. Art. Newp. I. c. sp. 1. p. 101. 

 Legs fifty-five pairs. Length 2 to 2| inches. 



There are three specimens in the British Museum, preserved by Dr. Leach, 

 but in too bad a condition to be correctly described as regards colour. One 

 of these specimens has only fifty-one pairs of legs. 



4. Arthron. similis, virescenti-flavus, capite antennis segmentisque analibus aurantiacis, 



mandibulorum apicibus unguibusque nigris, segmento cephalico elongato quadrato 

 convexo antice paulum angustato postice recto, antennis pilosis moniliformibus : arti- 

 culo terminal! subelongato, segmentis basilari subbasilarique <equalibus, labio tevigato 

 subtriangulari porca elevata mediand, pedum paribus 55.— Long. unc. 1^-2. 

 Hab. In Anglic comitatu Kent, prope Sandwich, {in Mus. nostr.) 



following passage in his now almost forgotten work, for the translation of which from the original 

 Spanish I am indebted to the kindness of my friend E. Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S. :_» There are in this 

 island (St. Domingo) many kinds of Scolopendra or hundred-legs ; for some are slender and as long as 



one s finger, and like to those of Spain, and these bite and cause considerable pain There are 



other of these worms about half the length of the finger, and slender, with many feet, and these shine much by 

 mght, and leave a light where they go, and may be seen fifty or even a hundred paces off; yet the whole 

 animal does not shine, but only the joints where the legs spring from the body, and the light is very 

 bright. These remarks most distinctly refer to some species of Geophilidce, as the following sentence 

 does perhaps to some Annelide :-<• There are others, which, in all that has been stated, are very like 

 these in size and m shining, but they have this great difference, that the head also shines, but the light 

 of the head is that of a very bright burning coal." I„ reference to the true Scolopendra, he says :- 

 in the city of St. Domingo I have often seen some of these hundred-legs or Scolopendras as long 

 or longer than a span, and as wide as one's thumb, and certainly they seem things to be afraid of. 

 fhey htve tawny stripes at the origin of the legs, and the horns (antenna,) are tawny, and the body 

 darker; but though they are animals of evil aspect, I have heard no one complain of their bites, and 

 I did not like to try them, for though they might not do mischief, it seems as though they can be 

 suspected of nothing but eviU'-Oviedo, Coronica de las Yndias, lib. 15. cap 2 fol 113 



