194 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Scolopendra pachypus KoWrausch, Archiv. naturg., 1881, 47, 1, p. 113. 

 Scolopendra leptodera Kohlrausch Ibid.; Brolemann, Cat. Myr. Bresil, 1909, 

 p. 19. 



Locality. — Brazil (type of leptodera Kohlrausch, which has been 

 restudied by Kraepelin and identified with polymorpha) . 



This is a very common species in the southern United States and in 

 Mexico. It has also been recorded from Venezuela. 



Scolopendra alternans Leach. 



Trans. Linn. soc. London, 1812, 11, p. 383; Meinert, Proc. Amer. philos. soc. 



1886, 23, p. 193; Kraepelin, Revis. Scolop., 1903, p. 244; Brolemann, Cat. 



Myr. Bresil, 1909, p. 15. 

 Scolopendra morsitans Palisot de Beauvois (non Linne), Ins. Afr. Amer., 1805- 



1821, p. 152. 

 Scolopendra sagraea Gervais, Ann. sci. nat., 1837, ser. 2, 7, p. 50; Brandt, Bull. 



sci. Acad, imper. sci. St. Peterburg, 1840, 7, p. 57. 

 Scolopendra complanata Newport, Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1844, 13, p. 98. 

 Scolopendra grayii Newport, Ibid. 

 Scolopendra multispinata Newport, Ibid. 



Scolopendra incerta, Newport, Trans. Linn. soc. London, 1844, 19, p. 404. 

 Scolopendra crudelis C. L. Koch, Syst. Myr., 1847, p. 387; Myr., 1864, 2, p. 



36, fig. 158, 159; Meinert, Proc. Amer. philos. soc, 1886, 23, p. 194. 

 Scolopendra cubensis Saussure, Mem. Soc, phys. hist. nat. Geneve, 1860, 15, p. 



387. 

 Scolopendra testacea Wood, Journ. Acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1862, ser. 2, 5, p. 26. 

 Scolopendra torquata Wood, Ibid. 

 Scolopendra longipes Wood, Ibid. 

 Scolopendra alternans Meinert, Proc Amer. philos. soc, 1886, 23, p. 193; 



Kraepelin, Revis. Scolop., 1903, p. 244; Brolemann, Cat. Myr. Bresil, 



1909, p. 15. 



Locality.— Brazil ! (M. C. Z.). 



This is a very common species in the West Indies, etc. 



Scolopendra morsitans Linne. 



Syst. nat. ed. 10, 1758, 1, p. 638; Kraepelin, Revis. Scolop. 1903, p. 250; 



Brolemann, Cat. Myr. Bresil, 1909, p. 19. 

 (For synonymy and bibliography cf. Kraepelin, Loc cit.). 



Localities. — State of Amazonas: Manaos; State of Parahyba: 

 Parahyba! (Nathaniel Thayer expedition, M. C. Z.); State of 



