from the Chinese Seas. 351 



cartnatus ; but tliere seems to me to be no satisfactory reasons 

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

 form,] 



l^Otostigmus aculeatus, Haase. 



Ofostiffmu.s aculcdtug, Haase, Die lud.-Austral. Chilopoden, p. 71, pi. iv. 

 tig.\)9. 



Loc. Hong Kong {J. C. Bowring).'] 



\^Otostigmus politus, Karscli. 

 Otostifftnus politus, Karsch, Berlin, ent. Zeitschr. .\xv. p. 219 (1881). 

 Loc. Pekin.] 



\_Otocryptops sexspinosus (Say). 



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



&c. 

 Otocn/ptops ptaictatus, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) viii. p. lo9 



(1891). 



Loc. 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 tiie 

 United States of America.] 



[^Otocryptops ruhiginosus (L. Koch). 



Scolopocryptops rubif/inosa, L. Koch, Verb. z.-b. Wien, 1878, p. 792. 

 Scolopocryptops Confucii, Karsch, Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, ix. p. 05. 

 Otocn/ptops rubiyinosus, Haa.se, Die Indisch-Austral. Myriopoden, 

 p. 97. 



Loc. Japan ; Ashinoju, Japan {Hoist) ; Great Loo-Ciioo 

 {Hoist); Corea {Kalinoiiski).~\ 



Family Geophilidae. 

 Mecistocephalus Smithiij sp. n. 



Colour yellow, head and maxillary somite castaneous. 



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

 riorly, coarsely punctured, biimpresscd behind ; maxillipedes 

 thickly punctured ; coxaj bidcntate 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. 



A7ial somite of normal form ; the pre-tergal sclerite very 



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