216 Mr, R. I. Pocock on neiv Geophilidse 



shut, the frontal margin, covered laterally by the head, 

 unarmed ; pleurce large when viewed from below, when seen 

 from above appearing in the angle formed where the head 

 meets the basal plate. 



Prebasal ylate invisible ; hasal plate wide, about four times 

 as wide as long, as wide as the head and first tergite, but not 

 so long as the first tergite, its sides subparallel and lightly 

 convex. 



Tergites bisulcate, broader and twice as long as the pre- 

 scuta. 



The inleural prescuta large and free, larger than the tracheal 

 sclerites, which are in contact witli the tergites. 



Sternites neither sulcate nor carinate, except the first and 

 last furnished with a conspicuous, median, circular, porous 

 area, those at the anterior end of the body granular, the rest 

 scarcely, or at least inconspicuously, granular. 



Anal somite. — Tergite wide, wider than long, with con- 

 verging and convex sides, almost covering the pleurae ; pleurce 

 small but not coxiform, smooth and without pores ; sternite 

 wider than long, as long as the pleurae, with converging sides, 

 mesially impressed ; prosternal pieces conspicuous ; legs short, 

 about as long as the preceding pair, composed of five seg- 

 ments, and unarmed. 



Number of pairs of legs 103. 



Length 70 millim. 



A single specimen from Athens. 



I can see no reasons for separating Scotop)hilus * from 

 Henia. The species that Meinert described as Scotophilus 

 appear to be only well-marked species of Henia. In length 

 of body and number of legs this species comes between H. 

 devia of Koch and Meinert 's species. 



Geophilus Grantii^ sp. n. (PL XII. fig. 2.) 



Colour testaceous, head and maxillary segment pale casta- 

 neous. 



Body much narrowed posteriorly. 



Head considerably longer than wide, with straight anterior 

 and posterior borders and convex lateral borders, shining and 

 more or less indistinctly punctured ; frontal plate indistinct. 



Anteymw, longish, hirsute, attenuate, the segments sub- 

 cylindrical, the last segment not longer than the penultimate. 



Prebasal pjlate invisible; basal plate with its posterior 



* This name in any case cannot stand, since it is preoccupied for a 

 bat. 



