chamberlin: chilopods from Mexico and west indies. 521 



tarsal articles especialh- so. Terminal membranous article minute, 

 bearing very short hairs. Hairs short, dense, evenly distributed, like 

 those of other parts of caudal portion of bodN-. 



Pairsof legs89 (9). 

 Length near 80 mm. 



Locality.— Cuba: San Diego de los Banos. Type, M. C. Z. 

 1728; one specimen. 



Telocricus multipes, 



sp. nov. 



Body light lemon-yellow anteriorl}', paler yellow posteriorly. 

 Head and prosternum darker. Antennae yellow. Legs yellow with 

 the posterior pairs very pale. 



Body very slender, gradually narrowing to the caudal end. 



Frontal plate not discrete. Head widest anteriorly; sides nearly 

 straight, considerably converging caudad. x\nterior margin semi- 

 circularly rounded, indented as usual between the antennae. Caudal 

 margin straight; 1.45 times longer than wide. Basal plate largely 

 overlapped by the head, the exposed portion being in the type eight 

 times wider than long. 



Antennae moderate, in type being 2.6 times longer than the head. 

 Ultimate article pointed, a little shorter than the two preceding ones 

 taken together. Other articles mostly short. The distal seven or 

 eight articles subdensely clothed with fine short hairs, the others with 

 sparse long bristles arranged chiefly about proximal ends. 



Claws of prehensors when closed attaining or a little exceeding the 

 distal end of the first antennal article. Claw at base with a black, 

 acutely conical tooth and a small protuberance distad of this as usual. 

 Femuroid with a stouter subconical black tooth at distal end, with no 

 protuberance proximad of it. 



Median sinus of prosternum narrow, semicircular at bottom, sides 

 vertical. A relatively broad nodular elevation each side of sinus. 

 Sides straight and parallel or nearly so. Exposed portion wider than 

 long in ratio 11:10; 1.6 times longer than greatest height of femuroid. 



Prescuta very short in anterior region, gradually increasing and 

 becoming moderately long caudad. 



First spiracle large, very much exceeding the second in size; sub- 

 circular or vertically a little elongate. Others strictly circular, de- 

 creasing caudad and in posterior region becoming minute. 



Median longitudinal sulcus of sternites very deep, crossing entire 

 length of plate, transverse sulcus more or less vague. 



Last ventral plate very narrow, longer than wide, strongly narrowed 

 caudad, sides incurved. 



