222 Mr. R. I. Pocock on neio Geophilidae 



Maxillary coxce hairy, punctured, as long as wide, 

 mesially impressed, without chitinous lines, anterior margin 

 with two small teeth ; the jAeurcB, seen from below, very 

 narrow ; feet elongate, punctured, hairy, largely overlapping 

 the head at the sides and in front, the joint of the claw being 

 on a level with the front margin of the head, the femur and 

 claw armed with a small internal tooth. 



Tergites bisulcate. 



Sternites with median impression and a fainter impression 

 on each side of the middle line. 



Anal somite. — Tergite longer than wide, narrowed poste- 

 riorly, not covering the pleurae; j^^ewrop moderately inflated, 

 almost wholly smooth, there being a few pores only close to 

 the edge of the sternite ; sternite wide, about as wide as long, 

 with convex lateral and posterior borders ; prosternal plates 

 distinct ; legs in female slender, composed of six segments, 

 longer than those of the preceding somite, armed with a claw. 

 Anal pores conspicuous. 



Number of pairs of legs 39. 



Length up to 43 millim. 



The Museum possesses two specimens of this species — one 

 from Wellington (New Zealand), presented by the Otago 

 University Museum, the other ticketed merely New Zealand, 

 presented by Mr. F. E. Beddard. 



Dr. Erich Haase, when writing his monograph on the 

 Indian and Australian Chilopoda, overlooked the small paper 

 of Hutton's above referred to. Consequently this species and 

 the one described below ai'e not taken into consideration. 

 Since, however, both the species were very briefly described 

 and referred to wrong genera, the omission is of small 

 importance. Fortunately the types of both these species 

 were acquired by the trustees of the British Museum in 1886, 

 and I have gladly taken this opportunity of describing them 

 as intelligibly as I can.] 



Geovhilus antipodwn, sp. n. (PI. XII. fig. 8.) 



Colour deep ochraceous, head and maxillipedes castaneous ; 

 shining. 



Body attenuate posteriorly. 



Head much longer than wide, nan-owed behind, widest in 

 its posterior half just beyond the middle line, posteriorly bi- 

 impresscd, sparsely punctured. 



Antennoi hairy, attenuate, the apical segment ovate and a 

 little longer than the penultimate. 



Prehasal plate invisible j basal plate sparsely punctured, 



