UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



IN 



ZOOLOGY 



Vol. 19, No. 12, pp. 389-402, plates 26-28 August 21, 1920 



ON SOME NEW MYRIOPODS COLLECTED IN 

 INDIA IN 1916 BY C. A. KOFOID ■• 



BY 



RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN 



The chilopods and diplopods noted in this paper comprise a small 

 collection sent to me for identification by Professor C. A. Kofoid. 

 All but two of the species represented were collected in 1916 at 

 Coonoor, which is in the Nilgiri Hills district of southern India, 

 presidency of Madras. 'One of the remaining forms, the spirostreptid, 

 was taken at Nellakota. in the Wynaad, near Ootaeomund, presidency 

 of Madras, and one at the Marine Biological Station, Misaki, Japan. 

 Six of the species are here described as new, one of these being made 

 the type of a new genus, Titsonobolus, related to the East Indian 

 Track elomcgalus. 



These collections were made possible by a grant from Mr. W. H. 

 Crocker, regent of the University of California, for parasitological 

 research in the Orient by Professor C. A. Kofoid. 



CHILOPODA 



MECISTOCEPHALIDAE 



1. Mecistocephalus nilgirinus, sp. nov. 

 Description. — Olive brown, the body under the lens seen to be 

 densely mottled or marbled with black, spots of black occurring also 

 on the anal legs. Prehensorial segment and head chestnut, the latter 

 darker laterally. Antennae chestnut. Legs fulvous of slight chestnut 

 tinge. 



