Notes on Myriapoda. 23 
Verhoeff (12) states in the passage we have quoted that 
various types of sternal glands are present in Geophilo- 
morplhis. 
After removing the alimentary canal of a specimen of 
Geophilus carpophagus recently killed in alcohol without 
discharging the “ white glands,” on opening the body-cavity 
along the mid-dorsal line, we have found that in addition to 
the groups of definite opaque “ white glands,” pyriform in 
shape and apparently unicellular, which are not fimly 
attached to the body-wall, there appears to be a consideralle 
mass of similar large transparent or semi-transparent glands 
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Transverse secticn near the middie of the body of Geophilus carpophagus, 
3,47 pairs of legs, Darwen, August 1919, x 40. Some muscles 
omitted, 
A, alimentary canal; mt, Malpighian tubules ; ¢, ¢, testes; vd, vd, vasa 
deferentia; db, dorsal blood-vessel ; xe, ventral nerve-cords ; fp, fat 
and pigment-cells ; mf, muscle-fibres ; /, 7, legs ; g'', glands (? mucin) ; 
g', glands (? protoluciferin). H. K, B.-B. del. 
lying loosely and irregularly among the muscles of the 
ventral part of the body, and covered more or less completely 
by an association of fat and pigment* cells spread out 
among the connective tissue around them.  ‘l'ransverse 
sections (figs. 15 and 16) show the same thing. 
* In our thirteenth paper, (z) p. 8, a specimen of G. carpophayus 
[1339], collected by Mrs. Banyard, had what was described as a “tinny 
appearance ”—perhaps that character was due to these pigment-cells. 
