1140 Dr. Rob, Lucas: Entomologie. Myriopoda 1899. 



dowiiw. a. backw. ; nodus w. a large a. broadly manimillate lateral pro- 

 minence; 1. sgm. much narrowed laterad. Genus Tymbodesmus. 

 Flag. w. nearly 2 turns in a diffuse spiral, their apices lyiug betw. the 

 bases of the cop. legs, directed dorsad a. cephalad; lateral prominence 

 of nodus small a. spiniform.; 1. sgm. with a louger lateral side. 



Genus Aulodesmus. 



Series II Astrodesmi. Olfactory Cones 10. 



$ w. the cox. of the 2nd pair of legs produced veutrad into cylindr. pro- 



cesses wbich exceed in length the 2. joints of the legs a. are densely 



hirsute with very long hairs. Genus Merodesmus. 



$ of Astrodesmus, the only genus comparable in size a. habit, with cox, 



not produced. 

 Stern, of sgm. 15 of ^ without a process; stem. of sgm. 6 with a semi- 

 circular, minutely apiculate process ; flag. of cop. legs accomodated by 

 a depression in the anterior part of the ventral surface of the 7. sgm.; 

 1. sgm. w. lateral side evenly rounded, its raised margin scarcely 

 thickened. Genus Sphenodesmus. 



Stern, of sgm. 15 of (5* w. a subtriangular process; stem. of sgm. 6 with 

 process triangulär or subquadrate a. apiculate; flag. of cop. 1. not ac- 

 comodated by an excavation; 1. sgm. with distinct, though rounded, 

 lateral sides a. poster. coruer, the marginal callus thickened as in 

 other sgms. 

 Copul. legs with 2 large, slender spines rising from the median face of 

 the nodus; one of these is beut laterad around the base of the fla- 

 gellum ; 1. sgm. proportionately long a. narrow, its carinae not equaling 

 those of the 2ud sgm. Genus Sigodesmus. 



Cop. 1. without conspicuous spines from the mesial side of the nodus at 

 the base of the flag.; 1. sgm. with carinae produced to equal or exceed 

 those of the 2nd sgm. Genus Astrodesmus. 



Astrodesmus Cook. Charakt. siehe Gomphodesmidae Ser. 11 p. 726 u. Cook, Proc. 

 Un. States Nat. Mus. vol XXI p. 726. — Uebersichtstah. über die Sp. : tanga, 

 petilus, luridus, robustus, laxus, striatus u. stellifer. 

 stellifer Cook p. 729 Taf LX Eig. la— Ik (Tana River, East Afr., betw. the 

 Coast a. Hameye). — robustus p. 731 Taf. LX Eig. 2 a (East Afr., 

 wahrsch. Deutsch. Gebiet). — laxus Gerst. (= Euryd. lax. Gerst. = 

 Aulod. lax. Cook) p. 731 Taf. LXI Eig. la— 1 d (Mombasa ; zw. d. Küste 

 und Kilimandscharo; Madinula; Tana). — striatus p. 733 Taf. LXI 

 Eig. 3a (East Afr.). — j^etüus p. 733 (^ Taf. LXI Eig. 6a— 6d (Zanzi- 

 bar). — luridus (Karsch) (= Euryd. lur. Karsch) p. 734 Taf. LXI Eig. 4 a, 

 4 b (Mombasa). — tanga p. 736 Taf. LXI Eig. 5 a (Tanga, Usambara, 

 Germ. East Afr.). 

 concolor Pocock in Donaldson Smith 's „Through Unknown African 

 Countries" p. 404 (Africa). 

 Aulodesmus Cook. Charakt. siehe Gomphodesmidae Ser. I u. Cook, Proc. Un. 

 States Nat. Mus. vol. XXI p. 713— 5. — mossambicus (Peters) (= Polyd. 

 moss. Pet. = Euryd. moss. Pet. = Aulod. moss. Cook) p. 715 Taf. LVIII 

 Fig. 2 a— 2 c (Isle of Mozambique; Penins. of Cabaceira; Querimba). 



