THE CENTIPEDS OF CENTRAL AMERICA. 



By Ralph V. Chamberlin, 

 Of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



This paper is primarily a report upon the centipeds from the 

 Central American region contained in the collections of the United 

 States National Museum. Surprisingly little has been done upon 

 the centiped and milliped fauna of this region; and that our 

 knowledge is still far from complete is amply attested by the per- 

 centage of new forms appearing in each additional collection studied, 

 this being especially noticeable in the case of the much more numer- 

 ous millipeds with their more restricted distributions. The mil- 

 lipeds will be treated in a separate report to follow. The centipeds 

 now known from the several countries of the region under consider- 

 ation are listed separately below. 



PANAMA. 



Scolopocryptops miersii Newport. 

 Rhysida nuda (Newport). 

 Cupipes tmgulatus Meinert. 

 Scolopendra subspinipes Leach. 

 Scolopendra morsitans Linnaeus. 

 PselHodes nigrovittattis (Meinert). 

 Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport), 



COSTA BICA. 



Cryptops bivittatus Pocock. 



Otocryptops melanostomus (Newport). 



Netcportia longit arsis (Newport). 



Newportia rogersi Pocock. 



Otostigmus denticulatus (Pocock). 



Otostigmvs scabHcaudus (Humbert and Saussure). 



Rhysida nuda (Newport). 



Rysida longipes (Newport). 



Scolopendra viridis Say. 



Scutigera linceci Wood. 



Scutigera nubila, new species. 



Labrobius costaricensis (Brolemann). 



Notiphilides maximiliani (Humbert and Saussure). 



No. 2402— Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 60, Art. 7. 



