1885.] -"d [Meinert. 



Dentes prosternales quini vel seni, rarissime quaterni vel septeni, 

 minores, obtusiusculi ; dens coxalis magnus, ad apicein carinatus, in latere 

 nodulo parvo instructus. 



Pedum articulus primus tarsalis, pedibus ultimis vel binis posterioribus 

 exceptis, calcare armatus. 



Pedes anales longiusculi, sat graciles, in margine sup. interiore rotun- 

 dato femoris paulum deplanati spinulis snepissime binis majoribus, angulo 

 apicali plus vel minus producto ssepissime bifido, in latere interiore spinula 

 singula vel nulla, in latere inferiore spinulis binis, in seriem longitudina- 

 lem digestis, armati. 



Laminae dorsales prater quatuor vel quinque priores marginato. 



Pleurae posticse minus ampla 3 , subrugosae, densissime porosa?, in angu- 

 lum minorem, bifidum product*, margine postico leviter arcuato, inermi. 



Lamina ultima ventralis longiuscula, angustiuscula, valde angustata, 

 post brevius rotundata. 



Long. 150-180 mm. 



"With regard to frequency, distribution and variability Sc. 

 subspinipes comes near to Sc. morsitans, and therefore I can 

 here refer to my preceding remarks. 



Hah. This species also is so common in all tropical and sub- 

 tropical localities, that I shall not enumerate the many places 

 from which the Museum has specimens. 



15. SCOLOPENDRA De HAANII. 



Scolopendra De Haanii Brandt, Recueil, p. 59. 



Koblrauscb, Arch. f. Naturg. .Tahrg., 47, p. 



Scolopendra SiUietensis, ? inermis, ?concolor, Childreni, Har die ickii New- 

 port, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xix, p. 393-395. 



Scolopendra flimicolor, ? cephalica, t? gracilis (var.) "Wood, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc. Pbilad., 1861, p. 12-13. 



Scolopendra bispinipes Wood, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, xiii, p. 166. 



Scolopendra bicolor Humbert, Essai Myriap. Ceylan, p. 12. 



Scolopendra histrionica, horrida C. L. Koch, Die Myriap., i, figs. 44, 67. 



Scolopendra fissispina C. L. Koch, Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. z. Wien, xv, p. 

 891. 

 Flavo-brunnea, supra stepe, prgesertim in margine postico laminarurn 



dorsalium, olivacea vel virescens (interdum laminis dorsalibus alternanti- 



bus totis olivaceis) ; robusta vel valde robusta, sublsevis, laminis ventrali- 



bus manifesto bisulcatis ; capite suborbiculari. Antennte longiusculie, ad 



basin valde incrassatte, attenuate, 18-articulatee, prreter articulos senos 



priores densissime brevissime hirsute, articulis plerisque longis. 



Dentes prosternales quini, rare quaterni, minores, obtusi ; dens coxalis 



magnus, obtusiusculus, nodo vel nodis obsoletis instructus. 



