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is, according to Mr Pocock, aboufc 50, but all of them 

 have not yet been put on record in print. In his recent 

 list for Hampshire (14) only 17 are recorded. Mr F. G. 

 Sinclair, in a somewhat disappointing article on the 

 Myriapoda of Cambridgeshire (15), gives the names of 

 about 30 British species, but is able to record only 9 of 

 them from the county. Pocock, Carpenter, and Brolemann, 

 in their respective notes on collections made in Ireland 

 (9, 10, 11), record 26 species for that island. 



For Scotland we owe a few early authoritative records to 

 Dr W. E. Leach, in whose papers, published ninety years 

 ago (2, 3, 4), 6 Myriapods (a Chilopod and 5 Diplopods) 

 are recorded from near Edinburgh, namely Geophilus 

 longicornis, Polydestmis complanatus, Craspedosoma raivlinsii 

 (named after its discoverer, Eichard Eawlins, a zealous 

 young naturalist who died shortly afterwards), Julus niger^ 

 J. pulchellus, and J. pusillus. These, however, are not the 

 earliest local records, for we find in a list of " Insects " found 

 in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, by C. Stewart, dated 

 1809 (1), the following names: — Scolopendra forficata, Julus 

 terrestris, J. sahidosics, and J. oniscoides. 



In 1835 Dr Gr. Johnston published a list of 11 species 

 found in Berwickshire (5). 



In 1882 Mr (now Sir) Thomas Gibson-Carmichael sub- 

 mitted a preliminary list of Scottish Myriapoda — 17 in 

 all — to this Society (7). Six have Forth localities there 

 definitely assigned to them. 



In 1900 and 1901 I reported, in the Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History (12), 11 species from the Forth Area, most 

 of them being additions to the Scottish list. 



Lastly, the British Association Handbook on the Natural 

 History of the Clyde Area (13), published in 1901, contains 

 a list of 13 species by Mr D. A. Boyd. 



The known Scottish species, so far as recorded, would 

 appear to number about 30. 



In the present list, which is based on a fairly large 

 collection of specimens and notes made from time to time 

 during the last ten years in various parts of the Forth Area, 

 I am able to record 17 Centipedes (including Scolopendrella) 



