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well be the female, and pallidus in many of the points men- 

 tioned in the description seems to resemble 8c. Gregorii. But 

 the locality " Baravez," in Sumatra *, if accurate, forbids 

 such an identification, quite apart from the fact that Kraepelin 

 says jxittidus resembles fulvipes in the structure of its tail &c. 



Part II. — Centipedes. 



Scutigera rugosa (Newp.). 



Scutigera rugosa (Newp.), Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 95 (1844) ; 

 Tr. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 353 (1845) ; Cat. of Myriopoda in the Collec- 

 tion of the British Museum, p. 8 (1856). 



A single example obtained at Merifano. 



In addition to this specimen and the type of the species, 

 which was obtained by Capt. Speke in East Africa, the 

 British Museum possesses but one other example, received 

 from the British East African Company in 1892. 



Scolopendra morsitans, Linn. 



Athi Plains. 



A single specimen presenting the following type of colora- 

 tion : — head, antennas, first tergite, legs, and anal somite 

 reddish yellow ; tergites 2 to 20 greenish yellow, with a dark 

 green stripe along the hinder border. 



Dacetum trigonopoda (Leach). 



Mkonumbi. 



One specimen. Colour brownish olive-green ; legs yellow, 

 apices of anal legs greenish. 



Otostigmus tamiatus, sp. n. 



Colour green or almost ochre-yellow, with the head-plate 

 and maxillipedes castaneous; the terga marked with four 

 fine deeper green lines, one on each margin and one on each 

 sulcus ; antennas greenish or ochre-yellow ; legs pale green 

 or yellow, or yellow obscurely banded with green. 



Bead smooth, finely punctured, narrow, elliptical in shape. 

 Antennas elongate, with 17 longish cylindrical segments, the 

 basal three of which are naked or nearly so and the rest 

 pubescent. Maxillas largely overlapping the head at the 



* I venture to suggest that this so-called " locality " may be due to 

 the wrong interpretation of a partially illegible label upon which was 

 originally inscribed the words " Barawa in Somali." 



