AETHEOPOD EAUNA OP THE WEST INDIES. 459 



St. Croix, Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Vincent, and 

 Barbados. It has also been recorded from Porto E-ico, St. Bar- 

 tholomew, and St. Kitts by Porath, from Marie Gralante and 

 Gruadeloupe by Gervais, and quite recently from Trinidad by 

 Daday. 



Common in tropical parts of both hemispheres. 



7. ScoLOPEKDEA MOESiTANS, Linn. 



Scolopendra morsitans, Kohlrausch, Arch. Nat. 1881 (47), p. 104 

 et auctt. 



Eecorded from St. Bartholomew and St. Kitts by Porath, 

 from Cuba and ? St. Domingo by Gervais. The British Museum 

 has specimens from Jamaica and Hayti. 



Like >S'. subspinipes this species is abundant in all tropical 

 countries. 



Scolopendra cubensis, Sauss. (Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, xv. 

 pp. 387-388, fig. 47 (1860), and Humbert and Saussure, Miss. Sci. 

 Mex., Myriopoda, p. 132), is probably referable to S. morsitans. 



The foregoing species of Scolopendra are well known to those 

 who have systematically studied the genus. The following 

 synopsis may aid in the rapid identification of them : — 



a. The first tergite marked anteriorly with a deep 



transverse groove ; patella on 2nd segment of 

 the anal leg spined ; head longitudinally bi- 

 sulcate. 

 a}. Sternites bisulcate ; femora of all the legs 



apically spined gigantea, Linn. 



6^. Sternites not bisulcate ; femora of only the last 



three pairs of legs (19th-21st) spined angulata, Nevvp. 



b. The first tergite not marked anteriorly with a 



sulcus ; patella of anal leg unarmed. 

 or. Head-plate completely bisulcate ; femora of 

 19th and 20th legs spined apically ; femora 

 of anal leg armed with upwards of 20-30 



spines aliernans, Leach. 



b'^. Head aot sulcate ; femora of all the legs 

 (except the anal) unarmed, 

 fl^. Anal legs long and slender, armed beneath 



with 2 (3) spines subspinipes, Leach. 



b^. Anal legs shorter and stouter, armed 



beneath with 9 spines morsitans, Linn . 



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