1885.J 1 i 1 [Meinert. 



2. SCUTIGERA CASTANEA, n. Sp. 



Angustiuscula, ante multum, post paulum angustata, valde convexa ; 

 castanea, concolor ; tuberosa, spinis in dorso medio subseriatis granulisque 

 perrninutis dense scabricula. 



Lamina cepbalica multo longior quam latior (5 : 4), in crucem impressa, 

 margine laeviusculo. 



Antennae desunt. 



Lamina? dorsales alte marginatse, margine manifesto crenulato, margine 

 postico in triangulum obtusum producto, in medio late sinuato ; lamina 

 ultima lata, lateribus rotundatis, valde angustata, post integra. 



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

 laminae dorsalis fere sesqui breviore. 



Pedes desunt. 



Forceps feminae longiusculus, angulo interiore articuli prioris longius 

 penicillato. 



The t} T pe of this species was deprived of all its legs and the 

 antennae. 



Hab. Koolloo, Mr. Carleton (the specimen was found in a 

 box together with the last mentioned species of this genus, 

 Scut, microstoma). 



3. SCUTIGERA FORCEPS. 



? Selista forceps Raffinesque, Ann. of Nature, i, p. 7.? 

 Cermatia coleoptcrata Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philada., ii, p. 5. 

 Cermatia floridana Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xix, p. 353. 

 Scutigera floridana Gervais, Walck. Hist. Nat. Ins. Apt., iv, p. 225. 

 Cermatia forceps Wood, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, new ser., v, p. 132. 



Wood, Trans. Amer. Pbilos. Soc. xiii, p. 145, pi. iii, 

 fig. 1, la. 

 f Cermatia Mexicana Saussure et Humbert, Etud. s. Myriap., p. 112, tab. 

 v, fig. 3, 3a, b. p. 



Latiuscula, ante vix post paulum angustata, minus convexa vel con- 

 vexa ; supra viridi-lutea, vittis tribus angustis, fuscis vel ccerulescentibus 

 notata, patellis tibiisque cingulis binis ccerulescentibus, per paria sensim 

 latioribus atque manifestioribus ornatis ; obscure tuberosa, spinulis sparsis 

 subseriatis (extra lineam mediam longitudinalem lsevem) scabriuscula. 



Lamina cepbalica post late, minus profunde impressa, ante canaliculata, 

 carina media obscuriore in transversum notata, minus alte marginata, 

 margine laeviusculo, sparse fimbriato ; manifesto latior quam longior 

 (fere 8:7). 



Antennae pertenues, corpore plus sesqui longiores (feminas 11 : 7 ; 

 mari 5:3). 



