THE MYRIAPODA in the AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



PAKT I. — ClIILOPODA. 



By H. W. Brolemann, Pau, 

 (Figs. 1-34). 



Thanks to the kindness of the Trustees of the Australian 

 Museum, I have been permitted to examine the Myriapods exist- 

 ing in the cabinets of the Museum, and for such favour I wish 

 to express my sincerest thanks to whom it is due. 



The material submitted for examination is small, but would 

 certainly assume an importance adequate to the rank of the 

 branch amongst the Arthropoda, should attention be drawn to 

 these highly interesting animals, and should some means of 

 identifying the species be offered to lovers of Nature. 



A plain list of names and localities would not have answered 

 the purpose; the diagnoses are distributed through many different 

 periodicals and are difficult to obtain without considerable loss of 

 time. It has, therefore, been considered a better plan to add to the 

 observations furnished by the material of the Museum, full 

 descriptions borrowed from the more recent authors and as 

 complete synonymical indications as possible. Thus, students 

 will have close at hand material for comparison as well as the 

 necessary particulars for identification. 



May this attempt to win sympathies to the cause of the much 

 disregarded Myriapods meet with some success. 



OHILOPODA ANAMORPHA. 



SCUTIGEROMORPHA. 



Genus Allotherelu, Verhoeft, 1905. 



Allothereua maculata (Neivport)) 1844. 



(Figs. 1-4), 



Cermatia maculata, Newport, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1844, 



xiii ; Trans. Linn. Soc, 1845, xix. 

 Cermatia maculata, Newport and Gray, Cat. Myr. Brit. Mus., 



1856. 



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