128 Mr. K. I. Pocock on tie 



Cormocephalus ruhriceps, Newp. 



Curmocephalus i-ubriceps, Newport, Tr. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 419 ; Ilaase^ 

 op. cit. p. 57. 



Loc. Maua laland (New Zealand). 



On the parchment label accompanying this species is written 

 " Centipede now confined to the island of Maua." 



Cormocephalus IluUoni^ sp. n, 



Cormocephalus violaceus, Hutton, Tr. N. Z. Inst. x. p. 289, 1877 (not 

 violaceus of Newport). 



Colour (in alcohol and certainly faded) olivaceous or ochra- 

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

 segment, legs, and antennae pale ochraceous. 



Head usually a trifle longer than wide, distinctly punctured. 

 Antenncb composed of 17 segments, whereof about the basal 

 7 or 8 are naked. 



Prostei-nal plates of the coxse tolerably long, in contact, 

 each furnished with 4 acute teeth, Tergites punctured, from 

 the second bisulcate, from the eiglith nuirginate. 



Sternites bisulcate, not otherwise impressed. 



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

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

 and twentieth ; pleurce densely porous, the process long, 

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

 ]iosterior border of the pleurse ; sternite i^o%tQx\ox\y narrowed. 



Legs sliort and moderately robust, the femur incrassate 

 ])Osteriorly, a little more than twice as long as wide; the 

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

 surface usually armed with G 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 without basal spurs. 



Rest of the legs with unspined tarsi. 



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

 width of anal tergite 4'2, of head 4-f-. 



Loc. New Zealand. 



These specimens are specifically identical with one of Prof. 

 Hutton's examples of his violaceus^ Newp,, which the British 

 Museum obtained from the Otago University Museum. This 

 specimen is ticketed Wellington ; so in all probability the 

 ' Challenger ' examples came from the same locality. The 

 Museum also has an example from AVaikouaito, 



The species differs from Cpurpureus^ Pocock { = vwlaceusy 

 Newp., cf. supra), in having no spurs at the base of the claw 

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



