Chilopoda of the Australian Continent. 461 
With 47 pairs of legs and only about 12 pores on the anal 
pleure. 
Loc. Gayndah and Rockhampton (according to Haase) ; 
also Olinda, Viti, and Otahiti. 
Genus NECROPHLGOPHAGUS, Newp., emend. Pocock. 
Necrophlaophagus concolor (Gervais). 
Geophilus concolor, Gervais, Ins. Apt. iv. p. 320 (1847); Haase, Abh. 
Mus. Dresden, no. 5, p. 108, pl. vi. fig. 113 (1887). 
Widely distributed in Australia. Gervais’s type was from 
Port Jackson ; Haase records specimens from Rockhampton 
and Sydney. The British Museum has examples from New 
England in New South Wales (J. Macpherson) and Perth 
(A. W. J. Turner). 
This species may be at once recognized from G. antipodum 
by its strongly hirsute head, antenne, and legs, very long 
antennz, of which some of the segments are nearly or quite 
three times as long as wide, by the strong and thick punctua- 
tion of the head and toxicognaths, the fewer pores on the anal 
pleure, broader sternites, &c., and lastly by the number of 
pairs of legs attaining 69 or 71. 
Length up to 48 millim. 
Necrophlaophagus antipodum (Pocock). 
Geophilus antipodum, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 222, pl. xii. 
fig. 8 (1891). 
Loc. Fern Tree Gully, in Victoria (Prof. Baldwin Spencer). 
This species has previously been recorded only from Maun- 
gatua and Wellington in New Zealand. Its occurrence in 
Australia is of much interest. 
Necrophleophagus sydneyensis (Pocock). 
Geophilus sydneyensis, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 219 
(1891). 
A small species based upon examples from Inner Double 
Bay, Port Jackson (J. Brazier). 
Necrophleophagus opinatus (Newport). 
Arthronomalus opinatus, Newport, Tr. Linn. Soe. xix. p. 433 (1845 
Geophilus opinatus, Haase, Abh. Mus. Dresden, no. 5, p. 108 (1887 
Colour deep ochre-yellow, darker anteriorly. 
. Head-plate a little longer than wide, narrowed in front, 
with lightly convex margins, sparsely punctured, and with 
two shallow longitudinal impressions ; frontal sulcus obsolete. 
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