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bearing two to four more or less distinct teeth or dentiform 
elevations. 
b. Basal tooth of first jomt of prehensors small or but moderate 
in size, being at base from one eighth to one tenth as thick as 
the spomn bis Disc oki alee eee O. ferrugineus (Linné). 
bb. Basal tooth of first joint of prehensors large, being at base 
nearly one fourth as wide as the joint. 
O. ferrugineus macrodon Kraepelin. 
aa. ‘Twentieth to twenty-third pairs of legs always lacking tibial and 
tarsal spines; prosternal margin smooth, without trace of téeth. 
O. melanostomus (Newport). 
OTOCRYPTOPS FERRUGINEUS (Linné). 
Scolopendra ferruginea Linné, Syst. nat. ed., 12, 1767, 6, p. 1063. 
Scolopocryptops ferruginea Newport, Trans. Linn. soc. London, 1844, 19, 
p. 406. 
Scolopocryptops rufa Gervais, Insect. Aptéres, 1847, 4, p. 297. 
Scolopocryptops mexicana Humbert et Saussure (non Saussure, 1860), Rev. mag. 
zool., 1869, p. 158. 
Scolopocryptops sexspinosa Porat (non Say), Bih. Svensk. vet. akad. Handl., 
1876, 4, no. 7, p. 26. Kohlrausch (in part), Arch. naturg., 1881, 47, 1, 
p. 54. 
Scolopocryptops antillarum Marsh, Trans. Ent. soc. London, 1878, p. 37. 
Scolopocryptops miersii Meinert (ad part max), Proc. Amer. philos. soc., 1886, © 
23, p. 181.1 
Scolopocryptops bisulca Karsch, Abhandl. Naturw. ver. Bremen, 1887, 9, 
p. 66. 
Scolopocryptops strigilis Karsch, Ibid. 
Scolopocryptops meinerti Pocock, Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1888, ser. 6, 2, p. 474. 
Otocryptops ferrugineus Kraepelin, Revis. Scolop., 1903, p. 72. 
Otocryptops sexspinosus Brélemann (non Say, the Brazilian record), Cat. Myr. 
Brésil, 1909, p. 11. F 
Locality.— “ Brazil.” 
This is a widely distributed species in Mexico, Jamaica, Haiti, and 
the Antilles generally, Central America, Ecuador, and Peru. 
1Of the specimens in the M. C. Z. labeled by Meinert as S. miersii and reported 
upon in the paper cited above, one specimon, from Martinique, is the true S. 
miersii Newport, the others being O. ferrugineus. 
