[Fnuii I'ror. r. .V Sal. .Vim., \. 1X87, pp. H17-«)27.] 



DESCRIPTIONS OF FOURTEEN NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMER- 

 ICAN MYRIAPODS. 



nV ('HARLK8 ir. H«)M,M.\N. 



The prosent paper contains deHcriptionsoi' fonrtet'ii sp«'rie.s of .'lyiia- 

 jkmIs which I belii'vc to be n«'\v. 



The types ofall have been presented to the T. S. National Museum. 



I take pleasure in acknowledjfinjf my indebtedness for specimens to 

 I'rof. (Jeorge l'\ Atkinson, of the University of South Carolina: to I>r. 

 Kichard 1). Owen, of New Harmony, Ind.; to Mr. Charles H. Urannrr, 

 of Mossy Creek, Tenn.; to Mr. and Mrs. Carl II. Ei<;enniann, of San 

 Diego, Cal.; to Mr. Charles L. K<hvards, «>f Johns Hopkins University; 

 t.i Mr. James 11. Burke, of Ukiah, Cal., and to Mr. Frederick C. Test, 

 of Westtield, Ind. 



1. ParajiiluB ectenes. sp. uov. 



Dia<innni8. — Allied to PdrajnhiH pennnylvanicHH (Brandt), but the form 

 of body much more slendei", the rei)U<;nat()rial i)ore not tou<'hing trans- 

 verse suture, which is straight, and the male genitalia entirely different. 



Type. — r. S. Nat. Museum, 



l{nhitat.—V\vA\)A Hill. Orange County. N. C. 



Ih'ficription of tt/pc. — Very dark brown, almost black, light sjmts 

 more or less confluent and indistinct, joints of antenna> tii)ped with 

 white; legs brown, slender; segments ]ulose and sulcate, nsm penn- 

 sylranieus. V^ertex not sulcate, setigerous foveohe present. Antennic 

 8car(;ely subclavate, longer than width of body. Ocelli distinct, S 7(»-l>, 

 9 ()0-8, arranged in a subtrai)ezoidal patch. Last segment not pass- 

 ing beyond anal valves, which are pih)seand not margiuate; anal scale 

 obtuse-angled. 



Number of segments, S and $ 07. 



Pairs of legs of female, 120, 



Length of body: S 46""", width lA't""", antenna' 2.7"""; 5 length 

 54""", width l.S""", antennie 1.0'""'. 



1 have a single pair of this species, collected by Prof. Ceorge F. At- 

 kinson. In the same collection there is a young rarajNhi.s that i)rob- 

 ably belongs to this species. This species dvd'ers from any other by 

 the slender body and peculiar form of the male genitalia, which I have 

 not described here, but will do so in a paper relating to the genus. It 

 may be worthy of remark that at present 1 consider the Jiilns 2>flosi8- 

 cutis of Wood as identical with F. pennsylvanicus (Brandt). His de- 

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