i^ 



Sp. 2. Geoti'ilus subter ramus. 



G. corpore flavo, capite f^irugineo. ^% 



Scolopendia subterranea. ShamTi.'dhs> Lmn. Soc. 2. 7. 



Geophilus subterraneus. Leach Trans. Linn. Soc. 1 1. 385. 



Encycl. Brit. Supp. 1 . 431. 



Long. Corp. Sh unc. 



Habitat in Angliee hortis. 



Dorsum seginentis lateraliter prominulis, lineis duabus lon- 



gitudinalibusabbreviatisirnpressis. Pedes articulis sub- 



ferrugineis, unguibus nigricantibus. 



In the living state, this species (which is extremely com- 

 mon in gardens in the western counties of England) may 

 readily be distinguished from the preceding species by 

 the longitudinal abbreviated lines. 



In January, I observed beneath the earth in a garden, a 

 cavity containing a female and twenty-six young ones * ; 

 they were of a pale yellow colour, with their heads darker 

 yellow, and the joints of their legs slightly ferrugineous* 



Sp. 3. Geophilus iJiaritimus. 



Tab. 140. Fig. 1—2. 

 G. linearis brunneo-ferrugineus, capite antennisque ferru- 



gineis, pedibus fusco-luteis. 

 Long. corp. 1^ unc. et ultra. 



Habitat in Britannia inter scopulos ad littora maris vulga- 



tissime. 

 rirr. 1. mag. nat. 2. Idemauctus. 

 Antennae lineares. 



* Varying very much in the number of their legs. 



