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Family SOOLOPENDRID^. 



Cryptops hortensis, Leach. 



Fairly common in hot-houses; and no doubt also occurs 

 in hot-beds, under flower-pots, etc., in the adjoining gardens, 

 though I have not yet seen a specimen in the open. It is 

 said to be common in gardens in the south of England and 

 in Ireland. Ellingsen has found it in Norway. According 

 to Pocock (14), it is certainly indigenous in Great Britain. 



Local data. — Under flower-pots in greenhouses, Laird's Nurseries, Cor- 

 torphine, several, May 1905; also at Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 190,5. 



Family GEOPHILIDiE. 

 Geophilus longicornis, Leach. 



' Gcophilus flavus (De Geer) ?, Auct*. 



This species, which is one of the most easily recognised in 

 the family, is common and widely distributed in our area, at 

 any rate in the lower districts. It appears in all the British 

 lists, and has an extensive range on the Continent. In 

 common with its allies, it lives in moist earth, under 

 stones, etc. 



Local data. — Lothianburn, March 1900, ! P.; King's Park, Edinburgh, com- 

 mon, April 1901, etc., ! E. ; Ormiston, East Lothian, three, each coiled round a 

 small cluster of eggs, in holes in a bank occupied by a colony of bees {Andrena), 

 22nd June 1900, ! P. ; South Queensferry, March, Bo'ness, June, and Linlithgow, 

 Aug. 1901; Cleish Hills, Aug. 1900; Aberdour, Culross, and Kincardine-on- 

 Forth, April 1901 ; near Dysart, North Queensferry, and Bridge of Allan, 

 April 1905; Aberlady, April; Kinchie, E. Lothian, ad. ?, May; Callander, 

 April 1900, ! P. 



Geophilus proximus, C. L. Koch. 



I And this species, which has already been recorded by me 

 from the area (12&), quite as common, and about as widely 

 distributed, as the preceding, from whicli it may be known 

 by its somewhat shorter head and antennse, uniformly shorter 

 hairs thereon ; and three-furrowed (or foveate) instead of one- 

 furrowed anterior ventral plates. The next species is per- 

 ceptibly more robust and chestnut in tint than either ; and, 

 besides, has a characteristic tooth and notch on the opposing 

 edges of each anterior ventral plate. Sir T. G. Carmichael 

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