Chilopoda of the Australian Continent. 463 
Necrophleophagus laticeps (Pocock). 
Geophilus laticeps, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 220, pl. xii. 
figs. 6, 6a (1891). 
Loc. King’s Island, in Bass Strait (Arthur Dendy). 
Key to the Australian Species of Necrophloophagus. 
a. Head long and narrow; toxicognaths largely over- 
lapping it laterally and partially so in front, with 
large quadrate coxal plate, which has no sutural 
lines and long subcylindrical femur. 
Geweatsron lessa9 in NUMbED. «55. <ues sees score antipodum, Poc. 
b'. Pairs of legs about 70 in number. 
a, Anal legs composed of 5 segments; the 
pleurze with many pores above and below.. curtipes, Haase. 
6?. Anal leg with 6 segments; the pleurz with 
Gimllyech Menyy [NOR WON Geos ooees done oe concolor, Gerv. 
6. Head short and broader ; the toxicognaths not over- 
lapping it in front; the coxal plate not large 
and quadrate, with distinct sutural line; femur 
short, especially along its inner edge. 
a®, Anal pleuree with many pores; anal sternum 
very small and triangular ; toxicognaths largely 
overlapping the head-plate at the sides...... opinatus, Newp. 
6°. Anal pleurze without pores, small ; anal sternum 
large; head-plate almost entirely overlapping 
the toxicognaths at the sides. 
a*, With 59 pairs of legs; anterior sterna with 
a deep oval pit; basal plate wide and short, 
four times as wide as long .............. laticeps, Poc. 
b*. With 48 pairs of legs; anterior sterna without 
distinct oval impression in front; basal plate 
not four times as wide aslong .......... sydneyensis, Poc. 
Genus OrpHN «US, Meinert. 
Orphneus phosphoreus (Linn.). 
Scolopendra phosphorea, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 368 (1758). 
Geophilus brevilabiatus, Newport, Tr. Linn. Soe. xix. p. 436 (1845). 
Orphneus brevilabiatus, Meinert, Haase, &c. 
Loc. Perth (H. W. J. Turner). 
Widely distributed in the tropics. 
somite ; the pores, moreover, of which about twenty are visible, are con- 
siderably larger, those lying near the genital border of the pleura being 
less than their own diameter from this edge: sternite wider, less nar- 
rowed, its posterior width about half its anterior width, which exceeds 
the width of the pleura adjacent to it externally. 
Total length 19 millim. 
Loc. The Bluff, South Island, New Zealand (Baldwin Spencer). 
