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Of Uncertain Position. 



(?) Geophilus sublaevis Meinert. 

 Natur. tiddskr., 1870, ser. 3, 7, p. 72. 



Locality. — State of ]\Iinas Geraes: Lagoa Santa. 



This is certain!}' not a true Geophilus, being in all probability a 

 member of the present family. It seems likely to pro^•e to belong 

 to Schendylurus. The anal legs are unarmed; the last ventral plate 

 very wide with pores on coxopleurae said to be absent by Meinert 

 but no doubt to be found after proper treatment with potash as has 

 been shown to be true with -various species of Schendylurus, etc., 

 which at first were considered to lack the pores; the presternum 

 and joints of prehensors, unarmed, the claws of the latter not surpass- 

 ing the front margin of the head; pairs of legs 67. 



Ortidae. 



Orphnaeus Meinert. 



Myr. Mus. Hauniensis, 1870, 1, p. 17; Proc. Amer. philos. soc, 1SS6, 23, p. 2.30; 



Zool. jahrb. Syst., 1903, 18, p. 200; Verhoeff. Bronn's Thierreich, 1908, 



5, p. 294. 

 Chomatohius Humbert et Saussure, Rev. mag. zool., 1870, p. 205; Miss, sclent. 



Mex., 1872, p. 145. 



Orphnaeus branneri, sp. nov. 



Dorsum yellowish brown, darker cephalad where the tergites are 

 margined with a more deeply red stripe. The anterior dorsal plates, 

 excepting the first one, with a conspicuous black spot on the anterior 

 portion, this consisting typically of a narrow transverse stripe along 

 the anterior margin connected at the middle by means of a broad 

 neck with two short curved marks diverging from each other and 

 bending out laterad near the middle of the plate; this mark in going 

 from segment to segment caudad becoming less and less developed and 

 finally disappearing entirely. No distinct geminate dark stripe such 



