1885.] 1"1 [Meinert. 



3. SCOLOPOCRYPTOPS MlERSII. 



Scolopocryptops Miersii Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xix, p. 405. 



Gervais, Walckenaer Ins. Apt., iv, p. 298. 

 ? Scolopocryptops melanostoma Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xix, p. 



406. 

 ? Scolopocryptops melanosoma Gervais, Walckenaer Ins. Apt., iv, p. 298. 

 Scolopocryptops sexspinosus p.p. Kohlrausch, Arch. f. Naturg. Jahrg., 47, 

 p. 54. 



Castaneus, subtus fulvus, antennis pedibusque flavis, posterioribus saepe 

 majorem vel maximam partem cceruleis ; robustus, sublaevis, capite vix 

 marginato, orbiculari. Antennae longiusculae, longius, dense hirsutae, 17- 

 articulatae, articuiis omnibus longis. 



Metameri quarti prosterni margo anterior medius valde callosus, pro- 

 ductus, manifesto sinuatus, sinu dentibus duobus majoribus vel minoribus 

 armatus. 



Pedes anales longi vel perlongi (maris ? manifesto pilosi), spina inferiore 

 maxima, interiore majore vel minore. 



Laminae dorsales praeter sex priores atque duas posteriores vel saltern 

 ultimam immarginatae. 



Pleurae posticse scabrosae atque porosse, in spirjam longam, acutam (vel 

 maris? longissimam, acutissimam) productae. 



Lamina ultima ventralis perlata, manifesto angustata, post sat profunde 

 sinuata. 



Long. 70 mm. 



Hab. This species seems to prefer the more southern parts of 

 North America, and I have also seen other specimens from the 

 larger Islands of West India; from .leremie, Hayti, Dr. D. F. 

 Wienland ; Grande Anse, Hayti, Uhler ; Kingston, Jamaica, 

 Garman ; Monn (?) Rouge, Martinique, Garman. It is also 

 found in South America. 



II. Segmenta pedifera 21. 



A. Segmentum septimum spiraculis instructum. 



2. Gen. Heterostoma. 



1. Heterostoma trigonopoda. 



Scolopendra trigonopoda Leach, Zool. Miscell., iii, p. 36. 

 Heterostoma trigonopoda Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xix, p. 413. 

 ? .Heterostoma sulcidens Kohlrausch, Arch. f. Naturg. Jahrg., 47, p. 59, tab. 

 iv, figs. 5-7. 



One specimen of this genus, from Monrovia in Africa, is re- 



