MILLIPEDS FROM DOMINICA — ^HOFFMAN 



39 



For the present, the shape of the gonopod telopodite, as shown in 

 the drawings in the cited work by Dr. Kraus and those included with 

 this paper, is more meaningful as a generic diagnosis than any tenta- 

 tive verbal characterization might be. 



Mestosonta semirugosum (Pocock), new combination 



Figure 2 



Strongylosoma sevnrugosum Pocock, 1888, p. 477, pi. 16, fig. d. — Chamberlin, 1918, 



p. 246. 

 Habrodesmus semirugosus Attems, 1937, p. 194. 



Males and females were taken from the Fresh Water Lake at 

 2,000 ft. on March 26, 1956, and from Castle Bruce Junction, March 

 10, 24, and 30, 1956. Field notes state: "between boards," "under 

 leaves," and "from decaying bromeliads." 



The original gonopod drawings published by Pocock are small and 

 very diagrammatic, showing nothing in the way of characters that 



Figure 2. — Mesiosoma semirugosum (Pocock). Left gonopod of male. Mesial aspect 

 lower right; ventral aspect of telopodite upper left, to show the finely laciniate inner 

 margin of the postfemur. 



