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Fam. Scolopendridae. 



Scolopendra morsitans (Linn.). 



Loc. St. lago (Cape Verde) ; Zebu (Philippine Islands). 



Scolopendra mutilans, L. Koch. 



Scolopendra mutilans, L. Koch, Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1878, p, 791 ; 

 Hacase, op, cit. pp. 47, 48. 



Loc. Yokohama. 



Scolopendra chilensts, Gervais. 



Scohpe7idra chilensis, Gervais, Ins. Apt. iv. p. 285 (1847) ; id. in Gay's 

 Hist, de Ciiile, Zool. iv. p. 67, fig. 7 (1849) ; Meiuert, Proc. Am. 

 rhil. Soc. 1886, pp. 199, 200. 



Loc. Valparaiso. 



Pithopus calcaratus, Pocock 

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Loc. Bahia. 



Pithopus calcaratus, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vii. pp. 224, 

 22o, 



Cormocephalus violaceus (Fabr.). 



Scolopendra violacea, Fabr. Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 289 ; Gu(5rin-M(5neville, 



Icon, llegue Anim. ii., Ins. pi. i. fig. 8. 

 Cormocephalus calcaratus, Porath, (Efv. Vet.-Alvad. Ftirhaudl. 1871, 



no. 9, pp. 1159, 1160. 



Loc. Simon's Bay (Cape of Good Hope). 



There can be very little doubt, I think, as to the correct- 

 ness of the above synonymy. Fabricius's description and 

 Guerin's figure are accurate enough to preclude the likelihood 

 of error in the identification of the species. Newport never 

 saw an example of it ; he consequently retained the name 

 violacea under the genus Scolopendra, an error which gave 

 rise to two others. For, in the first place, Newport him- 

 self described a New Zealand species of Cormocephalus as 

 violaceus, and Porath, following Newport's opinion respecting 

 the generic position of Fabricius's violaceus, recharacterized 

 it as a Cormocephalus which he called calcaratus. C. calca- 

 ratus is consequently a synonym of C. violaceus (Fabr.), and 

 the New Zealand violaceus of Newport, which is different 

 from the African, must be renamed. I propose to call it 

 purpureus. 



