MYRIOPODA FROM BURMA 817 



Legs on 15"' somite with femur one third longer than tlie 

 tarsus and twice as long as tlie trochanter, which is about equal 

 to the tibia and slightly longer than the patella. 



</. Thinner than the 9 , with larger more upstanding keels. 

 Legs also longer, with tarsi scopulate below. The process on the 

 sternum of the 5"' low, like a bifid tubercle. Copulalory feel 

 short, as in fig. 20. 



Length of 9 24 mm., width 3 ; of c^ length 24, width 2.0. 



Loc. Minhla (Comotto coll.). 



This species is allied most nearly to those of tlio miranda 

 group ; but in the disappearance of the dorsal coloured bands 

 it approaches the common 0. coarctata - type. 



27. Ortlioin.or*plitx liax'selxii (Pocock) 

 (Fig. 14). 



Paradesmus karschii , Pocock, Myriopoda of the Mergui Archipelago in Joiirn. 

 Linn. Soc. (Zool.) XXI. p. 293, pi. XXIV, fig. 5. 



Recorded originally from King Island and Sullivan Island in 

 the Mergui Archipelago off the coast of S. Tenasserim. Sig. L. Fea 

 obtained examples at Malewoon in Tenasserim and Mr. Gates 

 others from the southern part of this country without further 

 particulars as to locality. 



This species is noticeable for its colouring. The head and 

 antennae are pitch black, the legs deep brown, the first tergite 

 entirely pale yellow and the rest of the tergites with the upper 

 surface of the keel-bearing portion entirely flavous except for 

 a narrow^ piceous patch quite on the anterior edge. 



28. Oi'tliomox'plia, insiilaris , sp. n. 



(Fig. 15). 



Colour; head and antennae piceous ; 1** tergite piceous ante- 

 riorly, along its hinder border a clear flavous band gradually 

 passing into the anterior piceous patch; the rest of the terga 



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