Meinert.1 lii) [Oct. 2, 



Although the genus Scutigera is very interesting, the different 

 species of the genus are but little so ; and the characters which 

 they offer are, as I have just asserted, often very few and with- 

 out value. Besides, the antennas and the legs, particularly the 

 anal legs, are excessively fragile and are often wanting, even in 

 living specimens ; and thus many of the specimens which are 

 preserved in museums are more or less destitute of the orgaus 

 from which the chief characters are drawn. Frequently we find 

 specimens deprived of all their external organs. Species founded 

 on such organs are indeed of no great value, but nevertheless 

 they are distinguishable, and I myself have proposed such a 

 new species. 



1. Scutigera serrattpes. 



Scutigera serratipes Gervais, Walckenasr Hist. Nat. Ins. Apt. iv, p. 221. 

 ? Scutigera Templetoni Humbert, Essai Myriap. Ceylan, p. 8, pi. i, fig. 

 1, la-lb. 



Latiuscula, ante et post paulum angustata, convexa (, ) livida, vittis duabus 

 lateralibus latissimis griseis mediaque post paulum angustata rufo-Hvida 

 notata, antennis tarsisque flavis, cingulis patellarum manifestius, tibiarum 

 binis obsoletius cceruleseentibus ; manifesto tuberosa, spinulis in dorso 

 (extra lineam mediam glabram) subseriatis granulisque perminutis scab- 

 riuscula. 



Lamina cepbalica fere oeque longa ac lata, post late minus profunde im- 

 pressa, ante canaliculata, sulcis duobus rectis transversis atque sulco 

 singulo antico curvato exarata ; alte marginata (,) margine laeviuscula, 

 fimbriata. 



Antennae corpore sesqui longiores. 



Laminae dorsales alte marginatae, margine densissime spinuloso, margine 

 postico in angulnm obtusum producto, obscure flexuoso, in medio late 

 sinuato ; lamina ultima latiuscula, lateribus paulum flexuosis, sat angus- 

 tata, post late rotundata, obscure emarginata. 



Stomata in aequum porrecta, longa, stomate primo quam linea media 

 laminae dorsalis manifesto breviore. 



Carinae pedum alte expressae, densissime spinulosae. 



Pedes paris ultimi tenuissimi, corpore plus duplo longiores (fere 11 : 5); 

 tibia a tarso bene discreta, manifesto clavata, aculeis binis longiusculis, 

 subaequalibus armata. 



Forceps feminaelongiusculus, articulo altero quam priore multo breviore 

 (fere 3:4). 



Long. 35 mm. 



Hob. At Pennaculum, South India, Mr. Scudder; the Isle of 

 St. Mauritius, Mr. Pike. 



