nEPonr upon two collections of myriopoda. i^s 



nothing is said about tlie size of the species, or the niunber 

 of segments, or the distance between the eyes, and the segments 

 are described as being laterally and superiorly " subgranulosa, 

 rugosa," and since the former epithet certainly does not to my mind 

 intelligibly express the sculpturing of Sp. iiiscn/ptm, I must provi- 

 sionally, at all events, look upon the two species as distinct. 

 Spirostrevtiis lankaenm, Humbert. 



(PL ii, fig. 6.) 

 Op. cit., p. 50. 



Colour (in alcohol) ; head ochraceo-fuscous ; antenna'- fuscous, 

 flavo-annulate ; legs ochraceous, concolorous, anal somite fuscous, with 

 margins of valves and aj)ex of tail ochraceous ; rest of the somites 

 fuscous anteriorly, ochraceous posteriorly. 



Bodi/ long aijd slender ; sub-cylindrical. Head and face convex, 

 smooth and shining ; with a very faint sulcus above ; four labral 

 punctures ; eyes widely separated, composed of about 39 ocelli 

 arranged in six transverse series ; antenme moderately long, stretch- 

 ing to the end of second somite. 



Somites; coUum laterally narrowed, its anterior border straight, 

 anterior angle widely rounded, inferior border lightly convex , posterior 

 angle nearly squared, a wide and deep sulcus running from the pos- 

 terior angle as high as the eye, defining a narrow inferior border 

 and a wide anterior border to the lateral lamina, in front of this 

 sulcus is a second fine and shorter one reaching half way to the eye. 

 The rest of the somites (except the anal) with a deep transverse 

 sulcus ; the anterior half concentrically and transversely striolate 

 anteriorly, the posterior half longitudinally striate throughout, the 

 strine close-set, running from the sulcus and just falling short of the 

 hinder margin, some longer and some shorter ; pores about the 

 middle of the body, conspicuous, situated in a smooth area, about 

 one-quarter of the distance between the sulcus and the hinder 

 margin of the somite ; ventral grooves small ; anal somite smooth, 

 produced above into a short straight blunt process which continues 

 the line of the back and projects slightly beyond the anal valves ; 

 valves convex, with compressed margins ; sternifc posteriorly angled, 

 defined posteriorly by a groove. 



Number of somites 63. Length about 53 ram. ; width 3-5. 



A single $ specimen from Punduloya. 

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