from the Chinese Seas, 351 



carinatus ; but there seems to me to be no satisfactory reasons 

 for regarding scaber^ which was described first, as a distinct 

 form.] 



[Otostigmus aculeatus, Haase. 



Otostignms aculeatus, Haase, Die Ind.-Austral. Chilopoden, p. 71, pi. iv. 

 fig. 69. 



Log. Hong Kong {J. G. Bowring).] 



[Otostigmus jjolitus, Karsch. 

 Otostigimis politus, Karsch, Berlin, ent. Zeitschr. xxv. p. 219 (1881). 

 Log. Pekin.] 



\_Otocryptops sexspinosus (Say). 



Scolopocryptops sexspinosus (Say), Newport, Wood, Bollman, Meinert, 



&c. 

 Otocri/ptops punctatus, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) viii. p. 159 



(1891). 



Log. S.E. Corea [A. Carpenter) ; Tsu-Shima {Hoist). 



This species furnishes a remarkable instance of resem- 

 blance between the fauna of China and Japan and that of the 

 United States of America.] 



\_Otocryptops ruhiginosus (L. Koch). 



Scolopocryptops rubiginosa, L. Koch, Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1878, p. 792. 

 Scolopocryptops Confucii, Karsch, Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, ix. p. 65. 

 Otocryptops ruhiginosus, Haase, Die Indisch-Austral. Myriopoden, 

 p. 97. 



Log. Japan; Ashinoju, Japan (Hoist) ; Great Loo-Choo 

 (Hoist); Corea (Kalinouski) .'] 



Family Geophilidae. 

 MeeistoGephalus Smithii^ sp. n. 



Colour yellow, head and maxillary somite castaneous. 



Head not twice as long as wide, gradually narrowed poste- 

 riorly, coarsely punctured, biimpressed behind ; maxillipedes 

 thickly punctured ; coxaj bidentate anteriorly, the femur 

 armed with two strong teeth and the two following segments 

 with a small one each ; claw unarmed. 



Tergites smooth, polished, the first and second not sulcate. 



Sternites at the anterior half of the body, with a median, 

 anteriorly abbreviated, deep longitudinal groove. 



Anal somite of normal form ; the pre-tergal sclerite verv 



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