VIAGGIO DI LEONARDO FEA 
IN BIRMANIA E REGIONI VICINE 
XXXI. 
ON THE MYRIOPODA OF BURMA. 
Pt, 2. Report upon the CrzZopoda collected by Sig. L. FEA and Mr. E. W. OATES 
by R. I. POCOCK of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), 
Until the present time very few species of Centipedes have 
been recorded from Burma, and, except from analogy, practi- 
cally nothing was known of the Burmese Chilopod fauna. But 
thanks to the energy with which Sig. L. Fea and Mr. E. W. Oates 
have amassed material of this group, it may now with confi- 
dence be asserted that we are far better acquainted with the 
Chilopoda of this country than with those of any other district 
_ in the Oriental Region. But although much has been done, 
there is no doubt that much remains to be discovered. And 
undoubtedly the best results in the future will be obtained by 
paying special attention to the collecting of the smaller kinds 
of Centipedes, such as the Lethobidae, the species of Cryptops 
and above all the Geophilidae. 
The specimens forming the subject-matter of the present paper 
are referable in all to 32 species, of which nearly half — na- 
mely 14 — prove to be new. There are 3 new species of 
Scutigera, 2 of Lithobius, 2 of Scolopendra, 1 of Otostigma, 1 of 
Heterostoma, 2 of Cryptops, 1 of Himantarium and 2 belonging 
to a new genus which I propose to call Himantosoma. 
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