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furnished above in its anterior half on the upper inner 

 edge with a large spiniform tooth, the middle of the 

 under surface armed with an enormous spiniform tooth, 

 which is larger than the spiniform process of the pleura; 

 tarsus unarmed, claw not spurred. 



Legs : twenty-second pair mucli longer and stronger than 

 the twenty-first, with tarso-metatarsus divided into a longer 

 proximal and a shorter distal segment, unarmed ; twenty- 

 first pair with tibia unarmed, tarso-metatarsus entire and 

 armed with a distal spine ; in the rest of the legs the tarso- 

 metatarsus is entire, armed with a single spur, and the tibia 

 armed with a single spur, the first and second pair having in 

 addition an anterior tibial spur. 



Length 60 millim., of anal leg 18*5, width of first tergite 

 6 millim., of twelfth 5, of twenty-third 2'7, of head 4*3 ; 

 length of head 5. 



A single specimen from Brazil. 



Distinguished from Sc. Miersii and mexicans by the form 

 of anterior border of the maxillary coxaj &c. 



Newportia Ernstij sp. n. 



Colour testaceous or pale ochraceous ; head and maxilli- 

 pedes castaneous. 



Bodi/ slender and nearly parallel-sided, attenuated quite at 

 the posterior end. 



Head a little longer than wide, its posterior borde;- and 

 posterior angles convex, sparsely and shortly liairy and 

 marked with larger and smaller punctures, its posterior two 

 thirds furnished with two fine, subparallel, anteriorly abbre- 

 viated sulci ; a fine transverse sulcus in front of the posterior 

 border. 



Antejince composed of 17 segments, the basal two or three 

 hirsute, the rest pubescent. 



MaxiUipedes sparsely punctured and hairy ; coxte with 

 anterior border but little produced, bilobate, being somewhat 

 deeply but narrowly excavated in the middle line, and bearing 

 on each side a wide, very short, obliquely set plate-like tooth ; 

 femur armed with a small tubercle internally. 



Tergites. — The first marked anteriorly with a semicircular 

 sulcus and throughout its length with two longitudinal sulci, 

 which slightly converge in front of the transverse sulcus ; the 

 second, third, fourth, and twenty-second bisulcate, from the 

 fifth to the twenty-first quadrisulcate, as in Gryptcps ; all 

 punctured, and, except the last, with simple borders. 



Sternites wider in front than behind, except the first, tweaty- 

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