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Brown above, but laterally and ventrally shows a distinctly greenish tinge, 

 the pore areas very dark, deep brown or blackish. 



Head of usual general form, wider near middle and narrower caudally than 

 in B. australiae. 



Labrum with fewer and weaker serrations than in that species, in large 

 part appearing smooth. Dentate plate of mandibles with five teeth. 



Antennae of usual general clavate and geniculate form; last article longer 

 than the two preceding together but shorter than the three preceding. 



Prebasal plate distinctly exposed. 



Basal plate nearly three times wider than long, angularly extended a little 

 forward at middle. 



Last ventral plate equal in length and breadth, narrowed caudad. 



Anal legs strongly crassate as usual, somewhat clavate in male. 



Coxopleural pores large, only inner edges covered by ventral plate. 



Pairs of legs, eighty-one to ninety-one. 



Length, up to 52 mm. 



93. Ballophilus pauctpes, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 1,912. Fijis: Nadarivatu (W. M. Mann). 



Dark brown in color above, paler at anterior and posterior ends, the 

 ventral pore areas deeper in color; a greenish pigment, from deeper 

 tissue, evident in a certain light. 



This species is readily separable from the other species through its 

 smaller size, much fewer pairs of legs and in not having a prebasal 

 lamina evident. The antennae are shorter, distally broader in pro- 

 portion to length. Coxopleural pores almost wholly covered by last 

 ventral plate which is of usual general form. Anal legs short and 

 very thick. 



Pairs of legs, fifty-five. 



Length, 16 mm. 



Oryidae. 

 94. Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport). 



Geophilus brevilabiatus Newport, Trans. Linn. soc. London, 1844, 19, p. 436. 



Orphnaeus brevilabiatus Pocock, Weber's Reise, 1894, 3, p. 317.^ Attems, 

 Zool. jahrb. Syst., 1903, 18, p. 201.^ Attems, Fauna siidw. Austral., 1911, 

 3, p. 154.* Ribaut, Abhandl. Senckenb. gesellsch., 1912, 34, p. 284.^ 



Orphnaeus phosphoreus Pocock (an Linne?), Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1898, ser. 7, 

 1, p. 325.2 



