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Geopliilus billneatus, Peters, Reise Mossam., Ins. p. 531, pi. xxiii. fig. 4. 



Orphnseus lividus, Meinert, Nat. Tidskr. (3) vii. p. 19. 



Orphnseus brasiliensis, id. ibid. p. 20. 



Orya xanti, Toinosvary, Term, filzetek, ix. p. 64 (1885). 



This species is found in all tropical countries, and is perhaps 

 the commonest in collections of all exotic Geopliilidse. 



Mr. BoUman has recorded it from Cuba, and Mr. Cockerell 

 has sent it to the British Museum from Jamaica. 



28. NoTiPHiLiDES Maxtmiliaisti {Hmnb. Sf Sauss.). 



Notipliilus Maximiliani, Humb. Sf Sauss. Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2) xxii. 

 p. 205; iid. Etudes sur les Myr. p. 141, pi. vi. fig. 22. 



Notiphilides Maximiliani, Latzel, Die Myr. Oest.-Ung. Monarchie, i. 

 p. 20; Meinert, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 1886, p. 233. 



An example of this species, which has hitherto been recorded 

 only from Central America, has been sent to the British Museum 

 from Trinidad. 



Contributions to our Knowledge of the Arthropod Fauna of the 

 West Indies. — Part III. Diplopoda and Malacopoda, with a 

 Supplement on the Arachnida of the Class Pedipalpi. By 

 H. I. PococK, of the Natural History Museum. (Commu- 

 nicated by W. Percy Sladeis, Sec. Linn. Soc.) 



[Eead 16th March, 1893.] 

 (Plates XXXYIL-XL.) 



I. DIPLOPODA. 



Undoijbtedlt the most interesting and important feature in 

 the Antillean Diplopod fauna brought to light by the collectors 

 employed by the Committee for the Exploration of the Lesser 

 Antilles (vide anted, p. 374) is the discovery, or rather re- 

 discovery, of Glomeridesmus. This genus has been a puzzle to 

 systematists for upwards of half a century, no one having been 

 able to assign to it a position in any of the recognized families. 

 There is no doubt, however, that it should constitute a distinct 

 family of its own, occupying a position between the groups to 

 which I have given the names Oniscomorplia and HelmintJio- 

 morpha. Its affinities, nevertheless, appear to be rather with the 

 former than with the latter, on account of the absence of 



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