158 Mr. R. I. Pocock on new Species of Chilopoda. 



furnished with many (50 + ) larger and smaller pores, scarcely 

 spinous behind ; legs absent. 



Legs hairy, spinous beneath, the twentietli pair larger than 

 the nineteenth. 



Stigmata elongate and ovate, in the anterior half of the 

 body more slit-like than in the posterior half. 



Length 34 raillim. 



A single specimen from New Zealand, presented by Mr. 

 F. E. Beddard. 



Closely allied to the preceding species, but much larger, 

 much more hairy, and more coarsely and closely punctured. 



Gryptops capivarce, sp. n. 



Colour pale ochraceo-olivaceous ; head ochraceous. 



Body nearly smooth, obsoletely punctured, and sparsely 

 hairy. 



Head marked throughout its length by two very fine ante- 

 riorly diverging sulci. 



Anten7icB stout, attenuate, pubescent throughout, basally 

 hirsute ; apical segment ovate and not longer than the penul- 

 timate. 



Maxillary coxce with anterior margin moderately arcuate, 

 angularly excised in the middle, furnished with six setce on 

 each side. 



Tergites. — The first covering the head behind, entire, the 

 second without sulci, the third faintly bisulcate ; from the 

 fourth to the nineteenth quadrisulcate, the twentieth faintly 

 bisulcate ; all except the anal tergite with simple margins. 



Sternites in the anterior half of the body marked with a 

 cross-shaped sulcus ; posteriorly the posterior bar of the cross 

 disappears, the last three sternites not sulcate. 



Anal somite. — Tergite of normal form; pleuroi rounded, 

 but not spinous posteriorly, furnished with many (30 -H) 

 larger and smaller round pores ; sternite wide, nearly quad- 

 rate, parallel-sided, with rounded posterior angles and straight 

 posterior border. Legs : the femur and patella very sparsely 

 spinous below and on the inner surface, the upper surface of 

 each marked throughout its posterior half by a median longi- 

 tudinal groove ; tibia not sulcate above, but with its posterior 

 edge biangulate above, sparsely liairy beneath, and furnished 

 with a row of about eleven small denticles ; first tarsal seg- 

 ment biangulate like the tibia, excavated beneath in front, 

 armed with about three denticles ; second tarsal segment 

 excavated beneath in front, carinate in its posterior three 

 quarters. 



