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(9) Erasmia nigrovittata, L. Koch. 

 Recorded by Koch from the Tonga Islands. 



Mr. Gardiner also obtained in Rotuma a few small spiders 

 belonging to the families Pholcidge and Theridiid*, but I am 

 not sufficiently well acquainted with the smaller representa- 

 tives of these groups to assign names to them. 



Class CHILOPODA (Centipedes). 

 (1) Ethmostigmus* platycephalus (Newp.). 

 Recorded from New Guinea, Tahiti, Halmahera, &c. 



(2) Otostigmus aste?ion (Kohl.). 



Apparently ranging from the Philippines to the Tonga 

 Islands. 



(3) Scolopendra morsicans^ Linn. 

 Cosmopolitan. 



(4) Mecistocephalus castaneicepSj Ilaase. 



Previously known from Christmas Island, Pulo Edam 

 oflF the north coast of Java, and the Andamans. 



Class DIPLOPODA (Millipedes). 



lULOIDEA. 



(1) Trigoniulus Goesi (Porat). 

 Cosmopolitan. Carried everywhere by human agency. 



POLYDESMOIDEA. 

 Family StrongylosomatidaB. 

 (2) Orihomorpha coarctata (Sauss.). 

 Cosmopolitan. Carried by human agency. 



* New name for Heterostoma, Newp. 1844, preoccupied by Hartmann 

 in 1843, and Dacetum, C. Koch, 1847, preoccupied as Daceton by Perty, 

 1830. 



