MYRIAPODA — BROLEMANN. 53- 



Genus Scolopendra, Linne (Newport), 1735. 



SCOLOPENDRA METUENDA, Pocock, 1895. 



Scolopendra metuenda, Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6), 



xvi., 1895. 

 Scolopendra metuenda, Pocock, in Willey's Zool. Results, 1898. 

 ,, ,, Kraepelin, Mit. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, 



xx., 1903. 



Mr. R. I. Pocock gives the following description of the single 

 specimen preserved in the collections of the British Museum : — 



" Colour. The terga a deep olive-chestnut, head nearly black ; 

 antenna?, legs, and sterna rather greener than the terga ; at the 

 posterior end of the body the chestnut colour predominates on 

 the somites. 



Head, without sulci, finely punctured, a little wider than long. 



Antennae long and slender, composed of nineteen or twenty 

 long cylindrical segments, whereof the basal five are smooth, 

 though punctured, and the rest pubescent. 



Maxillipedes finely punctured, the precoxal plates very short, 

 but wide, with convex distal edges, each furnished with upwards 

 of a dozen or more small, in parts nearly obsolete, teeth, which 

 present the appearance of having been worn away ; the femoral 

 process simple, small, and curved back against the appendage. 



Tergites. First without either longitudinal or transverse sulci ; 

 on the rest the longitudinal sulci start upon the third and extend 

 to the twentieth, but are everywhere faint (except upon the 

 extreme anterior and posterior edges of the terga), and almost 

 die out in the middle of the body ; a faint shallow median longi- 

 tudinal furrow upon the terga. The lateral margin from the 

 third to the twenty-first elevated. 



Sternites smooth and shining, weakly bisulcate. 



Anal somite small ; tergite not measially sulcate, its width 

 equal to the length of its lateral margin, hut a little less than 

 its median length ; pleura? densely porous, terminating in a 

 blunt process, which is tipped with four or five small spines ; 

 sternite long and narrow, posteriorly attenuate, with truncate 

 hinder edge, its basal width about two-thirds of its length ; legs 

 long and slender, nearly four times the length of the head, the 

 segments cylindrical and about four times as long as wide j 



