chamberlin: west Indian chilopoda and diplopoda. 163 



45. Telocricus hyper, sp. nov. 



Type. — M. C. Z. 1,878. (f . Cuba: Guantanamo, San Carlos. 

 C. T. Ramsden. 



The cephalic and basal plates and the prehensors are dilute chest- 

 nut. The remaining portion of the body and the legs are yellow, 

 the antennae yellow -n-ith a vague chestnut tinge. 



Cephalic plate formed as in T. cuhae, the sides straight and slightly 

 converging caudad and all corners oblique. Cephalic plate 1.6 + 

 times longer than wide. The basal plate is narrower and longer 

 than in T. cuhae with the sides conspicuously incurved instead of 

 straight and the exposed region of the plate only slightly more than 

 twice (2.1) as wide as long as against three times wider in T. cuhae 

 and from four to five times wider in T. major, another Cuban species. 

 The antennae are slightly more than three (3.1) times longer than the 

 cephalic plate, being thus shorter than in T. cuhae and decidedly 

 longer than in T. major. 



The prosternum is equal in length and breadth and is 1.72 times 

 longer than the greatest height of the femuroid, the prehensors appear- 

 ing ob\-iously proportionately smaller than in T. cuhae. The pro- 

 sternal teeth are larger than in either T. cuhae or T. major and the 

 mesal edges slant more while the teeth are obviously farther apart 

 and nearer to the prehensors. 



The first four spiracles are very large, vertically elhptical, the fifth 

 and following ones abruptly much smaller. 



First legs much smaller than the second. Anterior legs ob\aously 

 stouter than the posterior ones. 



The general structure of the last pediferous segment as in other 

 species of the genus. The coxopleurae less densely pilose than in 

 T. major. The last ventral plate proportionately broader and shorter 

 than in that species and anteriorly much wider and with sides much 

 more strongly converging caudad than in T. major. 



Legs greater in number than in the other Cuban species, one hun- 

 dred and three pairs being present in the type. 



Length, 65 mm. 



46. Lestophilus haitiensis Chamberlin. 

 Bull. M. C. Z., 1915, 59, p. 526. 

 Habitat.— Bjj.ti: Furcy (W. M. Mann). 



