796 R. I. pococK 



Genus Eudasypeltis, nov. 



Allied to Slrongylosoma. 



Body narrow, cylindrical, keels small, their hinder half larger; 

 pores conspicuous, on segments 5, 7, 0, 10, 12, 13, 15-19, as 

 in Polydesmus, but just on the lower half of the lateral surface. 

 Keel-bearing part of segments densely covered above with close- 

 set squamiform granules and studded with erect white setae ; 

 lateral surface finely granular and also studded with setae. The 

 transverse tergal sulcus conspicuous. 



6. Eudasypeltis pxisillus , sp. n. 



(Fig. 4 -4a). 



Colour; head deep brown above, labral region ochraceous; 

 antennae brown , darker distally ; dorsal surface deep brown ; 

 legs, sterna and lower part of lateral surface ochraceous. 



Head rugulose above, hairy, with very faint frontal sulcus. 

 Antennae shortish, incrassate, segments 2-6 subequal in length. 



P"^ tergile convex, not keeled, its anterior border evenly con- 

 vex from the posterior angle of one side to that of the other, 

 posterior border straight. 2°"^ tergite with its keel horizontal, 

 produced behind and in front and projecting below the level of 

 the edge of the first and of the keel of the 3'-'^. Keel of 3'-* 

 and 4*^ well developed, the anterior angle rounded, the poste- 

 rior acute and produced. Keels of the rest of the somites projecting 

 just above the middle of the side, irregularly formed; in those 

 somites that bear pores the anterior half of the keel is almost 

 obsolete, being represented by two or three small teeth ; while 

 the posterior, pore- bearing part is enlarged, sub-quadrate, more 

 or less tuberculiform, its anterior angle rounded and its poste- 

 rior produced and acute, but only in the 18"" somite are they 



