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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan Published by the University 



RESULTS OF THE BRYANT WALKER EXPEDI- 

 TIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 

 TO COLOMBIA, 1913, AND BRITISH 

 GUIANA, 1914 



THE DIPLOPODA 

 Bv Ralph V. Chamberein 



The diplopods secured by this expedition form a highly 

 interesting collection of sixty-seven species, of which the great 

 majority have not been previously described. As in the case 

 of the chilopods, most of the collecting in the present group 

 was done by F. M. Gaige, as indicated in the following pages 

 in connection with the various records. As it seems obvious 

 that our knowledge of the diplopod fauna of the regions cov- 

 ered by the expedition and of the adjacent regions is still very 

 incomplete, it seems best at this time not to enter into any 

 general discussion of the composition and derivation of the 

 fauna. The collection from Colombia, made chieflv in the 



