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Femora of penultimate legs not spinulose ; spines of anal femora less numerous 



! E 



E. -Femora ol anal legs armed with 10—14 spines (4 — 6 within, 6—9 beneath, ar- 

 ranged in a triple series) ; the angular process with 3—4 spines; antennce 



17— 22-jointed * morsitans I,. 



Femora of anal legs with 2—5 spines, the angular process simple or bifid ; an- 

 tennae 17 — 20-jointed F 



F.— Spines of anal femora 4—5, always two beneath *subspinipes Leach. 



Spines ot anal femora only 2, both within *De Haanii Ihandt. 



DISTRIBUTION AND SYNONYMY. 



bispinipes Wood = De Haanii Brandt. 



byssina Wood ^ subspinipes Leach. 



Californica Humb. et Saiiss. = vio7-5itans L. 



castaneiceps Wood = luros Girard. 



Copeiana Wood := heros Girard. 



crudelis Koch. Syst. der Myriapoden, 170 (1S47); Die Myriapoden, II, 36, 

 t. Lxxvii, Lxxviii (1863).- Florida, Tortugas ! Key West ! Hayti. 



De Haanii Brandt. Recueil, 59 (1841). — California ; tropical regions generally. 



heros Girard in Marcy's Exp. Red River, App. F., 243(1853). — Florida! 

 Louisiana! Texas! Kansas! New Mexicd! Arizona! Utah! Mexico! Ga., Ala., Ky., 

 Neb., Cal., Panama, Guatemala, Porto Rico. The report by Meinert (/. c.) of a 

 specimen from Westfield, N. V., must have arisen from an error in the label ! 



incequidens Gervais. Apteres, IV, 277 (1847). — New York. Tiiis species is as 

 yet unidentified ; the type is supposed to be in Paris. 



inaequidens Wood = IVoodii Mein. 



longipes Wood = crudelis Koch. 



marginata Say ^ morsitans L. 



morsitans L., Kohlrausch. Archiv f. Naturg., 1881, 104. — West Indies I 

 Surinam ! Florida, "Southern States" (Wood); tropical regions generally. 



pachypus Kohlrausch = f heros Girard. 



parva Wood = viridis Say. 



pernix Kohlradsch = ? heros Girard. 



polymorpha Wood = heros Girard. 



punctiventris Newp. = viridis Say. 



subspinipes Leach., Kohlrausch. Archiv f. Naturg. 1881, 96.— West Indies ! 

 Surinam ! Florida ; tropical and subtropical regions generally. 



viridis Say. Proc. Phila. Acad. II, no (1821). — Lookout Mountain, Tenn. ! 

 Tortugas, Fla. ! Georgia! 



Woodii Meinert. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. XXI, 198 (18S5).— Va., N. €., 

 S. C. [Meinert); Illinois ( /-F(^(7(/). 



IV OPISTHEMEGA Wood. 



The species are thus characterized : 

 A. — Femora of anal legs armed with a spine at the internal superior angle ; antenn;^ 



16— 17-jointed, distally pubescent *spinicauda Wood. 



Femora of anal legs unarmed ; antenna^ 17 — i8-jointed B 



1). Antenna' (except first four joints) pubescent ; anal legs very short and stout . . 



crassipes Mein. 

 .Vntenniie not pul)escent ; anal legs short, punctate *postica Wood. 



