462 Mr. R. I. Pocock on the 
Antenne clothed with short hairs, the segments subcylin- 
drical, mostly about twice as long as wide. 
Basal plate almost as wide as the first tergite posteriorly, 
narrowed anteriorly to the width of the head. 
Toxicognath largely overlapping the head laterally ; coxal 
plate with median groove, complete chitinous lines, narrowed 
laterally, not parallel-sided ; femur short, wider than long, 
unarmed ; a small tooth at base of fang; when the fangs are 
folded the toxicognaths are about as wide as long. 
Terga smooth, shallowly bisulcate, the anterior with a 
faint median sulcus as well. Anterior twenty-five sterna with 
an anterior median pit, which is deep from the second to about 
the twelfth somite, then graduaily fades away 3 posterior 
sterna shortly hirsute, the hairs giving the appearance of 
granulation. Last somite as wide as the penultimate; the 
pleuras largely visible at the sides of the tergal and pre- 
tergal plates, furnished above, below, and laterally with about 
30 pores; the tergite a little longer than wide; the sternite 
small, triangular, much narrower in front than one of the 
pleural plates and not half the length. 69 pairs of legs. 
Posterior legs scarcely longer than penultimate, slender, 
the segments progressively becoming thinner and longer 
distally; claw large. 
Gonopods represented by a pair of triangular bisegmented 
lobes. 
Anal pores large. 
Total length 54 millim. 
Loc. Narre Warren, Gippsland. 
The above-given description is taken from a specimen sent 
to the British Museum by Prof. Baldwin Spencer. 
The two specimens, ticketed ‘ Australia,” upon which 
Newport based his description are imperfect in the case of the 
antenne and of the posterior end of the body. The latter 
imperfection was overlooked by Newport, who gives the 
number of pairs of legs as 52 and 54 (the actual numbers are 
50 and 53). In reality, as the example from Narre Warren 
indicates, the species possesses at least as many as 69. Haase, 
in his monograph, falls into the error of assigning 49 pairs to 
the species *. 
* I take this opportunity of characterizing a new species of the genus 
closely related to NV. opinatus :— 
Necrophleophagus Spenceri, sp. n. 
Closely allied in most structural points to G. opimatus, but with only 
39 pairs of legs and the pleurz less inflated, their anterior portion 
being covered on the dorsal side by the prztergal sclerite of this 
