igiQ-] F- Sii^vESTRi'. Indian Chilopoda Geophilimorpha. 



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Long, corporis ad mm. 80, lat. segment! primi 2. 



Mas feminae similis, pedibus ultimi paris quam idem feminae 

 parum crassioribus et parum magis setosis. 



Habitat. — India : Trichinopoli {Newton) ; Rangamati^ Chitta- 

 gong Hill Tracts, Bengal {R. Hodgart). 



On the nomenclature of L. punctifyons. — Newport described 

 this species on specimens from Madras ; from his time to the 

 present day there have been referred to the same species specimens 

 from other parts of Asia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Africa and 

 America, but after an examination of many specimens I have been 

 brought to consider as L. punctifrons, Newport, only the specimens 



Fig. II. — Lavinonyx punctifrons v. hetevopus : i. caput et segmenta pri- 

 mum et secundum trunci supra inspecta; 2. pedes maxillares et segmentum 

 primum pediferum subtus inspecta; 3. mandibulae pars distalis; 4 ejusdem 

 lamina mediana ; 5. pedes maxillares primi et secundi paris ; 6. sterni decimi 

 furca ; 7.-8. feminae corporis pars postrema supina. 



from Trichinopoli, a locality not far from Madras, and from a few 

 other Indian localities. 



Specimens from some parts of India and from Malaysia, Africa 

 and New Guinea appear different from that considered by me to be 

 L punctifrons and are here described as distinct varieties or species. 

 As Gervais, Lucas, Meinert and Humbert described species of 

 Lamnonyx, incorrectly retained by Pocock, Haase and others as 

 synonyms of L. punctifrons, I have revived the greater number of 

 these species, giving their names to specimens from the localities 

 from which the types were obtained. I note that this method is 

 not correct without the examination of the type specimens, but I 



