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Antennae articulis multis vel plurimis. 



Ocali ocellis paucis vel plurimis, aggregatis vel compositis. 



Pedes prensorii articulo secundo et tertlo mauifestis, integris. 



Spiraculorum paria nulla vel maxime 6. 



Genitalia feminea forcipe externo armata. 



Pullus ex ovo nuper exclusus pedum paribus 7 modo instructus. 



The tribus Anamorpba thus corresponds with the family 

 Lithobii, as I have proposed this family in " Danmark's Scolo- 

 pendrer og Lithobier." Naturk. Tidsskr. 3 R., 5 B., p. 246, and 

 the alterations which I have made in the characters here are 

 rather insignificant, although I will remark upon the following. 



By the addition of "corporis" to the first characters, I in- 

 tended to argue that the pedes prensorii or raptorial legs, to- 

 gether with their segment or metamer, cannot be reckoned with 

 the true segments and the true limbs of the body ; and I must 

 particularly urge this point, as I have given up the denomina- 

 tion "pedes maxillares" in which an explicit reference to the 

 head was contained. To the second character I have added 

 "omnes coxrs magnis, manifestis," by which I maintain that the 

 last pair of legs has large coxae of the same shape as those of 

 the other legs, and with or without excretorial pores. In the 

 next place I have determined the characters concerning the 

 spiracles more exact!} 7 , but for further explanation I must refer 

 to the characters of the family (or genus) Scutigera. The char- 

 acters concerning the raptorial legs will be treated of more 

 minutely under the second principal group, the Epimorpha. In 

 conclusion I have added the last two characters of Haase. 



As to the rest, with regard to my character "tarsis bi- vel- 

 multi-articulatis," I must make the following remark. The 

 tjrpical number of joints of the limbs, both in the Chilognatha 

 and the Chilopoda is seven, and it is thus stated by recent 

 authors,* and particularly by Latzel, in his most valuable work 

 on the Austrian Chilopods.-j- According to the rule, these seven 



♦Newport, on the contrary, reckons only six joints in the limbs of theMyria- 

 pods, overlooking, or not regarding as a joint the trochanter. " Monogr. Class. 

 Myriap. Trans. Linn.Soc. London," xix, p. 283. Wood has also in this point 

 followed Newport. " Myriap. North Arner. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc," xiii.p. 111- 

 H2. 



f'Die Normal zahl der Fussglietler ist sieben," so he writes in spaced types. 

 " Myriap. Oesterr, Ung. Mon,, p. 11." 



