Myriapoda from Dei'bi/shire. 



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Chordeumella sciUeJlare barjnalli, var. n. 



Dimensions of the male. — Length 6*0, breadth 0*6 mm. 



Other external characters. — In all essentials these are the 

 same as those of C. scutellare biolemanni, though, perhaps, 

 tiie new variety is rather duiker dorsal Ij. 



Modified Appendar/es of the Male : 



Anterior purai/o7W/>ods (fig. 2). — These show characters 

 intermediate between those ot the type of the species and the 

 variety C. scuttllure hiblemanni. The aj)pendages are repre- 

 sented by a pair of conical processes, the coxal elements, 



Fiir.3. 



Flo-. 2 



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Chordeumella scutellare bagnalli. 



Fig. 2. — Anterior parajronopods, x 260. H. K. B.-B. del. 

 Fig. 3, — Sternite and left femorite of the anterior gonopods, x 260. 

 H. K. B.-B. del. 



which bear long apical iiairs. A definite indentation of the 

 internal border of each paragonopod, due to an obtuse-angled 

 inward bend of tlie appendage, corresponds in ))osition to a 

 feeble fold in the case of C. scutellare scutellare. The 

 shoulder opposite the indentation is developed into a rounded 

 pigmented naked projection on the external border of the 

 limb. This projection is the rudiment of a telepodite, but the 

 point of division between telepoditic and coxal elements is 



