VIAGGIO DI LEONARDO FEA 
IN BIRMANIA E REGIONI VICINE 
XXX. 
ON THE MYRIOPODA OF BURMA. 
Pt. 1. Report on the Onzscomorpha collected by Sis. L. FEA, by Mr, 
E. W. OATES and by the late Sig. G. B. COMOTTO, by RR. I Pocock of 
the British Museum (Natural History). 
Apart from the collection, which is the subject matter of 
this paper, no species of this group have ever been recorded 
from Burma. This fact, coupled with the restricted range of 
species of Zephronia, is sufficient explanation of the circumstance 
that all the species obtained-by Fea, Oates and Comotto have 
proved to be new. A close relationship however may be traced 
between all the species here described and certain Assamese 
forms made known by Mr. Butler, such as: Z. excavata, tigrina, 
nigrinota and tumida. Thus in the 2"° (larger) pair of copulatory 
forceps the movable dactylus is distinctly bisegmented, the distal 
segment being much the smaller of the two, and the immovable 
dactylus is somewhat compressed, or blade-like and pointed. The 
movable dactylus of the first (smaller) forceps may be composed 
of either one or two segments, and like the immovable dactylus 
varies much in shape with species. 
Perhaps the most specialised of the forms obtained is Z. cre- 
pitans from Rangoon. This is the only known Oriental form 
that possesses a stridulating organ. But all the species are 
interesting inasmuch as they came from an unknown country, 
