AETHEOrOB FAUNA OF THE WEST INDIES. 463 



thinner, flat internally, the inferior surface slightly excavated in 

 front, tlie inner edge of the lower surface armed with 4 or 5 short 

 spmif orm teeth ; the tarsus shorter than the tibia, excavated in 

 front below, and armed internally with two small teeth ; meta- 

 tarsus slender, cylindrical, longer than the tarsus, carinate below ; 

 claw of normal size. 



Length about 15 '5 mm. 



Locality. St. Vincent {S. H. Smith). 



16. Otocetptops eeeetjgineus {Linn.). 



Scolopendra ferruginea, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1063; JDe Geer, 

 Mem. Hist. Ins. vii p. 568, pi. 43. fig. 6. 



Scolopocryptops ferrugineus^ Newport, Tr. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 406 

 (1845); id. Cat. Myr. Brit. Mus. p. 56 (1856); Karsch, Abh. Ver. 

 Bremen, xix. p. 66 (1884). 



Scolopocryptops rufa, Gervais, Ins. Apt. iv. p. 297 (1847). 



Scolopocryptops mexicanus, Humb. Sf- Sauss. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1869, 

 p. 158; iid. Myr. Miss. Sci. Mex. p. 134, pi. vi. fig. 18 (1872) 5 Pocock, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) vi. p. 143 (1890). 



Scolopocryptops sexspinosa, Porath, Bih. Sv. Vet,-Akad. Handl. 1876, 

 no. 4, p. 26; Kohlrausch, Arch. Nat. 1881, p. 54 (in part); not syn. sex- 

 spinosa of Say. 



Scolopocryptops bisulca, Karsch, Abh. Ver. Bremen, xix. p. 66 (1884). 



Scolopocryptops Miersii, Meinert,Pr. Am. Phil. Soc. 1886, p. 181 (not 

 syn. Sc. Miersii of Newport, cf. supra). 



Scolopocryptops Meinerti, Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) ii. p. 474 

 (1888). 



This species has a wide distribution, being found on both sides 

 of the Atlantic. Linuseus's type was from W. Africa, and Dr. 

 Karsch has recorded it from Accra. Moreover the British 

 Museum has a specimen ticketed W. Africa, and since this is 

 not distinguishable specifically from Sc. mexicanus of Humb. &> 

 Sauss., I have been compelled to adopt the older name for the 

 species. 



But although occurring in Africa, the species seems to have 

 its headquarters in the Neotropical Eegion ; for it is abundantly 

 distributed throughout Central America, the "West Indies, and 

 the northern parts of South America. 



In the "West Indies it is known from the following localities : — 

 Hayti, Jamaica, and Martinique (lfez?zeriJ) ; the British Museum 

 has examples from Cuba, Jamaica {T. D. A. Cockerell), St. Vin- 

 cent (L[. H. Smith), and Dominica {G. A. Ramage). 



