128 ^Ii- 1^- ^- IV'iK-k on the 



Cormocephalus ruhriceps^ Newp. 



CunnocephaluA rubriceps, Newport, Tr. Liuii. Soc. xix. p. 419; Ilaase, 

 vp. cit. p. 57. 



Loe. Maua Island (New Zealand). 



On the ))archnient label accompanying this species is written 

 " Centipede now confined to the island of Maua." 



Cormocephalus Hut font, sp. n. 



Cormocephahis violaceiis, Button, Tr. N. Z. In.st. x. p. 289, 1877 (not 

 violaceug of Newport). 



Coloi/r (in alcohol and certainly faded) olivaceous or oclira- 

 ceous, often with metallic lustre, the head, first segment, anal 

 segment, legs, and antennae pale ochraceous. 



/lead usually a tritle longer than wide, distinctly punctured. 

 Antenna composed of 17 segments, whereof about the basal 

 7 or 8 are naked. 



Prosternol plates of the coxje tolerably long, in contact, 

 each furnished with 4 acute teeth. Termites punctured, from 

 the second bisulcate, from the eighth marginate. 



Sternites bisulcate, not otherwise impressed. 



Anal somite. — Tergite not medially sulcate, nearly parallel- 

 sided, a little wider than the head, but narrower than the first 

 and twentieth ; pleuree densely porous, the process long, 

 slender, tipped with two spines, another minute spine on the 

 ])Osterior border of the pleurae ; stcrnite posteriorly narrowed. 



Legs short and moderately robust, the femur incrassate 

 jjosteriorly, a little more than twice as long as wide ; the 

 ])rocess moderately large, tipped with two spines, the inner 

 surface usually armed with 6 small spines, 2 above, 2 in the 

 middle, and 2 below, the lower surface only very shallowly 

 excavated, the external carina being low and armed with 2, 2 

 spines in two series ; claw witiiout basal spurs. 



Rest of the legs with unspined tarsi. 



Length up to 70 millim., of antenna 10, of anal leg 11 ; 

 width of anal tergite 4*2, of head 4 + . 



Loc. ^*'ew Zealand. 



These specimens are specifically identical with one of Prof. 

 llutton's examples of his violaceus, Newp., which the T3ritish 

 Museum obtained from the Otago University ^luseum. This 

 specimen is ticketed Wellington ; so in all probability the 

 * Challenger ' examples came from the same locality. The 

 Museum also has an example from Waikouaito. 



The species differs from C. j)urpureus, Pocock { = violaceiis^ 

 Newp., c/. snjyrh), in having no spurs at the base of the claw 

 on the anal hg and in having 4 spines in two series on the 



