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Furthermore, I ought to remark that at present I reckon the 

 " lamina dorsalis " as scutum dorsale to the fourth metamer. (the 

 venti-al part of which is the raptorial legs or pedes prensorii 

 with their sternum), and the "lamina praebasalis" as scutum 

 dorsale to the third metamer (of which the mandibles are the 

 exponents). In the "Myriapoda Musaei Hauniensis, I. Geophili," 

 p. 9, I have explained the ' ; lamina basalis " in the same manner 

 as here; but there I referred the "lamina prasbasalis" to the 

 maxillae, or the " pedes maxillares primi paris " as I then named 

 them, because the ventral part of the true third metamer was, at 

 that time, quite overlooked, not by me alone, but by all authors. 

 But the alteration of the explanation is no reason for altering 

 the term. 



"With regard to the classification of the Myriapoda or of the 

 Chilopoda generally, there is but little reason for inquiring into 

 the matter more extensively, particularly as no species of the 

 aberrant genera Scolopendrella, Potyzonium (and Peripatus), 

 are among those which are the object of my present investiga- 

 tions. I will only refer to my previous papers, in which I have 

 strenuously opposed the views of Alex. Brandt, when he regards 

 the genus Scutigera to be a special type of no less systematic 

 value than all the other Chilopods together. For this reason 

 also, I united the Scutigerini and Lithobiini in one single family, 

 the Lithobii, regarding their systematic value as not being 

 greater than that of the Scolopendrae and the Geophili. At 

 present I willingly admit that I have rather exaggerated, in my 

 endeavors to prove the intimate relation between Scutigera and 

 Lithobius, and that I have thus in some degree underrated the 

 systematic value of Scutigera ; and, therefore, I prefer now to 

 consider the genus Scutigera to be a separate family, of sim- 

 ilar value to the other families of the Chilopoda. But, on the 

 other hand, I must maintain that Scutigera and Lithobius are 

 much more closely related reciprocally, than to either Scolopen- 

 dra or Geophilus, and therefore I prefer, according to Erich 

 Haase, to unite the four families into two groups, the Anamorpha 

 and the Epimorpha, rather than, according to Latzel, to arrange 

 them into a straight line. 



I. Tribus Anamorpha. 

 Segmeuta corporis pedifera 15, inter se inaequalia. 



Pedes longi vel longissimi ; omnes coxis magnis, manifestis, tarsis bi- 

 vel- multi-articulatis. 



