44 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



The antennas were composed of a comparatively smaller 

 number of rings : — 



Right antenna : — Joint i, fifty-one rings ; joint ii, ninety-six 

 rings ; joint iii, broken after the one hundred 

 and fifty-fifth ring. 

 Left antenna : — Joint i, sfxty-six rings ; joints i. and iii., 

 broken after the one hundred and sixtieth 

 ring and showing no partition between joint ii 

 and joint iii. 

 Amongst other characters of the group, Verhoeff, 1904, 

 ■{Loc.cit., p. 258) mentions the existence of so called " Tarsal- 

 zapfen." Fig. 4 drawn from the tenth pair of legs of the g 

 specimen, gives an idea of these minute organs (a). The next 

 ying bristles (/3) assume a peculiar shape, being thickened at the 

 base and hooked at the apex. 



Loc. — Bourke, N. S. Wales; five specimens, three adult (J) and 

 •one immature £. 



CHILOPODA EPIMORPHA. 



SCOLOPENDROMORPHA. 



Genus Rhysida, Wood, 1863. 

 Rhysida 1 (longipes, Newport, 1844). 



It is not easy to decide whether this specimen belongs to 

 Newport's species or to R. subinermis, Meinert, as both anal legs 

 are missing. 



Loc. — Condamine River, South-east Queensland; one specimen, 

 July, 1898. 



Genus Ethmostigmus, Pocock, 1898. 



Ethmostigmus rubripes, Brandt, 1840. 



■Scolopendra rubripes, Brandt, Bull. sc. Acad. Petersb., vii., 



1810. 

 Scolopendra rubripes, Gervais in Walckenaer, Hist. Nat. Ins. 



Apt., 1847. 

 Scolopendra spinulosa, Brandt, Loc. cit., 1840. 



„ sidcidens, Newport, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xiii., 



1844. 



