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Mandible with 7 or 8 pectinate lamellae; gnathochilarium different 

 in the two sexes; first male legs with 6 joints and much thickened, 

 the second and often the seventh legs also modified . PARAIULIDAE 



Family NEMASOMATIDAE 



Genus BLANIULUS Gervais 1836, p. 435. 



TYPE SPECIES: Julus guttulatus Bosc, by original designation? 

 Blaniulus guttulatus (E3osc 1791), p. 10. 



TYPE: Not known to exist. 



TYPE LOCALITY: France. 



OTHER LOCALITIES: North America: Cultivated areas of Canada 

 and the United States. Chapultepec park, and Mexico City, D. F., Mexico 

 (Chamberlin 1943b). 



For synonymy and bibliography of this introduced European species 

 see Chamberlin and Hoffman 1958. 



Genus NOPOIULUS Menge 1851, p. 7. 



TYPE SPECIES: A'opoiu/us puracfu/afus Menge, by original designation? 

 Nopoiulus armatus Nem 1895, p. 2. 



TYPE: Present location? 



TYPE LOCALITY: Vicinity of Prague, Czechoslovakia. 



OTHER LOCALITY: North America: Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico 

 (Jawlowski 1930). 

 Nopoiulus minutus (Brandt 1821), p. 105. 



TYPE: Not known to exist. 



TYPE LOCALITY: "Eastern shore of Virginia" (Say), but introduced 

 there from Europe. 



OTHER LOCALITIES: North America: United States and Canada. 

 Chapultepec Park, and Salazar, D. F., Mexico (Chamberlin 1943b). 



For synonymy and bibliography of this introduced species see Cham- 

 berlin and Hoffman 1958. 



Family PARAIULIDAE 



Genus PARAIULUS Humbert and Saussure 1869, p. 155. 



Mexicoiulus Verhoeff 1926, p. 66. New synonymy suggested by N. 

 B. Causey. 



TYPE SPECIES: Paraiulus olmecus Humbert and Saussure, by mon- 

 otypy. 



Paraiulus amulensis Pocock 1903, p. 55. 

 TYPE: British Mus. 

 TYPE AND PARATYPE LOCALITY: Amula, Guerrero, Mexico. 



