386 NOTES ON GEOPHILID^ — COOK AND COLLINS. 



15. Cephalic lamina not narrowed anteriorly ScoJioplanes 



much narrowed anteriorly Strigamia* 



16. Cephalic lamina narrowed posteriorly Mecistocephalus 



broad, narrowed anteriorly 17 



17. Ventral pores on posterior part of sterna Geophilits 



middle of sterna. Schendyla 



Schendyla Bergsoe and Meinert. 

 Nat. Tiddskr., 4 Bd., p. 103. 



Body subdepressed, fusiform or elongate. 



AnteuiifB rather short, subfiliform. 



Froutal lamina coalesced; cephalic lamina not entirely covering the 

 sides of the prehensorial feet; prebasal lamina exposed; basal lamina 

 broad, the sides converging anteriorly. 



Labrum more or less united with the frontal lamina, entire, sinuate, 

 medianly dentate. 



Mandibles with one dentate and one pectinate lamella; condylus 

 large. 



Labial sternum entire; interior labial processes conic; palpi two- 

 jointed, tbe basal joint with a small process. 



Claw of maxillary palpus large, simple or pectinate. 



Sternum of prehensorial feet without chitiuous lines, anteriorly me- 

 dianly emarginate; claw with a tooth at base, or unarmed. 



Scuta bisulcatc, prescuta rather large. 



Spiracles small, round ; spiracle-bearing scutellum rather small, 

 about half as large as the prescutellum ; post scutellum large and sep- 

 arate ; median and episterual scutella and prescutella neaily obsolete. 



Ventral pores small, situated in the middle of the anterior sterna. 



Pleural pores two on each side, unpigmeuted ; last ventral plate 

 large, triangular, obtuse, its presternum large and distinct. 



Anal legs five to six jointed, enlarged in both sexes, but especially in 

 the male, unarmed, first joint small. 



Genital palpi of male simple or two-jointed. 



Anal pores wanting. 



Schendyla nemorensis (C. Koch J. 



Geophilus nemorensis C. Koch, Deutschl. Crust, etc. (1837). 



Poabius Mstriatus C. Koch, Syst. d. Myr., p. 183 (1847). 



LinoUenia nemorensis C. Koch, Die Myr., ii Bd., p, 26, f. 148 (1863). 



Schendyla nemorensis Bergs, et Mein., Nat. Tidssk., iv Bd., p. 105 (1866). 



Geophilus tyrolensis Bergs, et Mein., ibid. 



Body slender, yellowish or wax-colored, head light brown, sparsely 

 pilose with short rigid hairs. 



Cephalic lamina of nearly equal length and breadth ; prebasal lam- 

 ina scarcely visible ; basal lamina nearly twice as broad as long (3:5), 

 nearly half as long as the first scutum. 



'Sseliwanoff divides Seolioplanes Meinert and resurrects Strigamia Gray for one of 

 the divisions. The differences do not seem to us of sufficient importance to justify 

 the separation. 



