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with a stout spine on mesal surface near the proximal end and toward 
the ventral surface; otherwise unarmed. Other joints, so far as as- 
certainable from types, bearing rather scattered and short hairs, 
excepting the tarsi on which they are longer and more dense. ‘Tibia 
broadly constricted toward each end. First article of tarsus a little 
more than half as long as the tibia (ratio cir. 17:30); of same thick- 
ness as the immediately succeeding articles; the latter distinct and 
clearly separated from each other. (Plate 2, fig. 2). 
Length cir. 36 mm. 
Localities.— State of Matto Grosso: Madeira-Mamore R. R. 
camps 39 and 41 on the Rio Madeira! tw. M. Mann). One speci- 
men from each locality. 
NEWPORTIA COLLARIS Kraepelin. 
Revis. Scolop. 1903, p. 90. 
Localities.— Staté of Paré: Parad, suburb of Souza! (Mann and 
Baker); State of Amazonas: Lower Carsevenne, Brazilian Guiana. 
This second locality is the type locality and the two are the only 
ones recorded for the species. 
NEWPORTIA BICEGOI Brolemann. 
Rev. Museu Paulista, 19038, 6, p. 67, pl. I, fig. 1; Kraepelin, Revis. Scolop., 
1903, p. 93. 
Locality.— State of Amazonas: Mandaos. 
OTOSTIGMIDAE. 
This tropical and subtropical family is known from Australia, Asia, 
Africa, and the warmer parts of America. It is represented in the 
known fauna of Brazil by two genera, Otostigmus, the large typical 
genus, and Trematophycus. 
OrostTicmMus Porat. 
Bih. Svensk. vet. akad. Handl., 1876, 4, no. 7, p. 18; Meinert, Vid. Medd. nat. 
foren. Kj@benhavn, 1884, p. 118; Proc. Amer. philos. soc., 1886, 23, 
p. 183; Pocock, Biol. Centr. Amer. Chilopoda, 1895, p. 25; Kraepelin, 
Revis. Scolop., 1903, p. 97; Verhoeff, Bronn’s Thierreich, 1907, 5, p. 254, 
