364 On a Millipede new to Science. 



globose. General coloration of the thorax grey, the prse- 

 scutum with four brown stripes ; thorax with a dense, erect, 

 pale pubescence. Pleura dull gre}'. Legs with the femora 

 dull yellow, the lips brown ; tibiae yellowish browu, the tips 

 narrowly darker brown ; tarsi dark brown. Wings paler 

 than in £". nyasicola, the costal cell much paler brown ; 

 veins nut, or indistinctly, seamed with brown. Abdomen 

 yellowish brown, the segments narrowly margined with 

 black. Mule hypopygium small ; pleurites slender, curved ; 

 appendages small. 



Nab. Sierra Leone, Nyasaland. 



Holotype, (^ , Sierra Leoue (TF. G. Clements). B.M. 

 no. 93. 20. 



Paratope, cJ , Mlanje, Nyasaland, January 2, 1913 {S. A. 

 Neave) . 



Presented by the Entomological Research Committee, 

 1913. 236. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



XL. — jS'otes on Myriopoda. — XXIV. Preliminary jyote on 

 a Millipede neio to Science. By the Rev. S. Graham 

 BeADE-Birks, M.Sc. (Manchester), Lecturer in Zoology 

 and Geolof^y, i6.K. Agricidtiuai College, Wye, Kent. 



Mr. H. C. Chapelow, Lecturer in Horticulture at Wye 

 College, recently drew my attention to a plot of selected 

 white cz:ir lunnei-beans on Wye Field infested with 

 millipedes. 



Among the species present I took a pale form, whieli I 

 have submitted to Monsieur Henry VV. Bioleniann, and he 

 has been kind enough to assure me that my animal is new to 

 science and to give me some account ot" its systematic position. 



In the light of this information I submit the following 

 brief pieliiuincuy description : — 



Proteroiulus pallidus, sp. n. 



Nearly allied to Amsteiuiu fusca (Am Stein), and iu 

 general appearance similar to Typhioblaniulus guttulatus 

 (Bosc). 



