172 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vou. V, 1gto.] 
portion of this Archipelago (excluding the three which occur in all 
longitudes) are found to extend eastwards through Polynesia and 
Central America to Porto Rico and Argentina; southwards to 
Tasmania; northwards to China; and westwards practically not 
beyond the boundary of the Oriental region, though one species 
occurs in Socotra and one, otherwise not known west of Burma, 
has been found in Algeria. Thus they appear as a whole to have 
a much wider distribution over the islands to the east than over 
the mainland to the west. 
Again excluding the three most widely distributed species, we 
find that only two species are common to the Philippines and to 
the Sumatra-Java-Borneo group, the former having three addi- 
tional species and a local variety of Scolopendra subspinipes, and 
the latter twenty-seven additional species. Thus these two groups 
of islands will probably be found to form separate zoogeographical 
subdivisions of Oriental Malaysia so far as the Scolopendridz are 
concerned. 
With regard to the mainland it is almost impossible to draw 
any satisfactory conclusions on account of the scrappy nature of 
our information. Several forms appear at present to have a very 
erratic and scattered distribution. Records of the altitude at 
which specimens were found are particularly scanty and very 
badly needed. It is not surprising to find that the habitat of 
several species occurring in the Archipelago extends into Burma. 
A few of these range through Assam to India and China, and 
there seems to be a tendency for such species to extend parti- 
cularly along the Himalayas. As might well be expected, too. 
Further India and the Indian Peninsula (India Proper) have each 
several species which are not found in the other. It may be 
noted moreover that in the Indian Peninsula Scolopendra_ sub- 
spintpes (s. str.) and its var. hardwickei appear to be confined to 
the extreme south, var. dehaant being the dominant form in the 
northern parts. 
