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(9) Erasmia ntgrovittata, L. Koch. 

 Recorded by Koch from the Tonga Islands. 



Mr. Gardiner also obtained in Rotuma a few small spiders 

 belonging to the families Pholcidse and Theridiid^, but I am 

 not sufficiently well acquainted with the smaller representa- 

 tives of these groups to assign names to them. 



Class CHILOPODA (Centipedes). 

 (1) Ethmostigmus* platycephalus (Newp.). 

 Recorded from New Guinea, Tahiti, Halmahera, &c. 



(2) Otostigmus asierion (Kohl.). 



Apparently ranging from the Philippines to the Tonga 

 Islands. 



(3) Scolopendra morsicans^ Linn. 

 Cosmopolitan. 



(4) Mecistocephalus castaneiceps^ Haase. 



Previously known from Christmas Island, Pulo Edam 

 off the north coast of Java, and the Andamans. 



Class DIPLOPODA (Millipedes). 



lULOIDEA. 



(1) Trigoniulus Go'esi (Porat). 

 Cosmopolitan. Carried everywhere by human agency. 



POLYDESMOIDEA. 



Family StrongylosomatidaB. 

 (2) Orthomorpha coarctata (Sauss.). 

 Cosmopolitan. Carried by human agency. 



* New name for Heterostotna, Newp. 1844, preoccupied by Hartmann 

 in 1843, and Dacetum, C. Koch, 1847, preoccupied as Baceton by Perty, 

 1830. 



