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NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN AND 

 OTHER MYRIAPODA. 



By Walter W. Froggatt, F.L.S. 



In 1912, Mr. Brolemann contributed a paper to the Records 

 of the Australian Museum (Vol. ix., pp. 37-75), deaUng with the 

 Myriapoda collection in that Institution. In this paper, he 

 described a number of new species, and gave some interesting 

 notes on the range of a number of Australian centipedes. 



In 1914, I sent him a small collection, chiefly obtained in the 

 western country of New South Wales, which he kindly deter- 

 mined, and also sent me the description of a new species, accom- 

 panied by drawings (posfea). 



SCOLOPENDRA MORSITANS Limi. 



The type was described from India, but the species has a very 

 wide distribution in other parts of the world. In Australia, it 

 is the common centipede in the interior. I have specimens from 

 West Australia, South Australia, Pera Bore, Bourke, and Bre- 

 warrina. In the western country, these centipedes live deep down 

 in the dry, cracked soil; whence, when the heavy rains set in, 

 and the billabongs and gilgis are flooded, they swarm out, and 

 seek shelter under the dry bark on the tree-trunks, or fallen 

 timber and logs. At our Experiment Camp at Yarrawin, north- 

 east of Brewarrina, they were common in our tents in the rainy 

 season, Mr. Brolemann has added the following notes on speci- 

 mens sent — ^"No.3. Pera Bore, Darling River. The pink colour 

 of the antennai, and generally that of the body has no specific 

 meaning, although I do not recollect having met with a similar 

 case before. All other particulars are typical." Later on, he 

 said — "With reference to these specimens, it is to be mentioned 

 that the pleurse are truncate instead of being provided with a 

 process, and bear, near the inner angle, the two tiny spines which 

 are typically found at the apex of the process. A similar struc- 



