170 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



with a stout spine on mesal surface near the proximal end and toward 

 the ventral surface; otherwise unarmed. Other joints, so far as as- 

 certainable from types, bearing rather scattered and short hairs, 

 excepting the tarsi on which they are longer and more dense. Tibia 

 broadly constricted toward each end. First article of tarsus a little 

 more than half as long as the tibia (ratio cir. 17: 30); of same thick- 

 ness as the immediately succeeding articles; the latter distinct and 

 clearly separated from each other. (Plate 2, fig, 2). 



Length cir. 36 mm. 



Localities. — State of Matto Grosso : Madeira -Mamore R. R, 

 camps 39 and 41 on the Rio Madeira! (W. M. Mann). One speci- 

 men from each locality. 



Newportia collaris Kraepelin. 

 Revis. Scolop. 1903, p. 90. 



Localities. — State of Para : Para, suburb of Souza ! (Mann and 

 Baker); State of Amazonas: Lower Carsevenne, Brazilian Guiana. 



This second locality is the type locality and the two are the only 

 ■ones recorded for the species. 



Newportia bicegoi Brolemann. 



Rev. Museu Paulista, 1903, 6, p. 67, pi. I, fig. 1; Kraepelin, Revis. Scolop., 

 1903, p. 93. 



Locality. — State of Amazonas : Manaos. 



Otostigmidae. 



This tropical and subtropical family is known from Australia, Asia, 

 Africa, and the w^armer parts of America. It is represented in the 

 known fauna of Brazil by two genera, Otostigmus, the large typical 

 genus, and Trematophycus. 



Otostigmus Porat. 



Bih. Svensk. vet. akad. Handl., 1876, 4, no. 7, p. 18; Meinert, Vid. Medd. nat. 

 foren. Kj0benhavn, 1884, p. 118; Proc. Amer. philos. soc, 1886, 23, 

 p. 183; Pocock, Biol. Centr. Amer. Chilopoda, 1895, p. 25; Kraepelin, 

 Revis. Scolop., 1903, p. 97; VerhoefT, Bronn's Thierreich, 1907, 5, p. 254, 



