158 Records of the Indian Museum [VoL. V, 
specimens this foot bears a distinct front seta! (see text-figure) ; 
the size of the Calcutta specimens (up to 4 mm.) is rather 
greater than that of any of Hansen’s numerous specimens ; and 
the sinus on the posterior margin of the penultimate segment is 
perhaps hardly as great as in the type. On account of these 
differences between the Calcutta specimens and the type the for- 
mer may be regarded as belonging to a local race for which I 
propose the subspecific name idica. 
A. B: iG 
A. Claws of twelfth foot of S. unguiculata, Hausen (after Hansen). 
B. Claws of twelfth foot of S. unguiculata (indica). 
C. Claws of twelfth foot of S. subunguiculata, Imms (after Imms). 
All drawn to one scale (diain. x 330 about). 
The shape: of the claw of S. unguiculata (indica) may be almost identical 
with that of S. uwnguiculata (s. sty.) : but the distinct front seta is always present. 
The known geographical distribution of the two Indian 
species is— 
Scutigerella unguiculata. 
Venezuela: La Moka (type ; Hansen, 1904). 
India : Calcutta (sub-species zmdica; new record).’ 
Scutigerella subungutculata. 
India: near Dhanaulti in Tehri Garhwal (Imms, 
1908). 
LIST OF PAPERS REFERRED TO. 
1876. Wood-Mason, J. ‘‘ Exhibition of forms of Arthropoda new 
to India,” Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1876, pp. 174-5. 
1 Hansen says of these claws in S. unguiculata (loc, cit., p. 35), ‘‘the front 
seta is rather weak,’’ and in his figure no seta can be clearly distinguished by its 
size as the front seta. In the Calcutta specimens this seta is quite as distinct as 
in Imms’s figure of the same claws in S. subunguiculata. 
2 This Indian sub-species of Scutigerella unguiculata I have recently found in 
abundance in Ceylon, both in the Kandy district (1,500 ft. and upwards) and at 
Pattipola (6,000 ft.). Probably it is widely distributed throughout the island and 
Mr. Green tells me that he has seen a similar looking little centipede at Pundaloya 
(4,000—5,000 ft.) and on the top of Namunakuli Hill (6,600 ft.). 
