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Habitat. — Southeastern United States N. to Tennessee (Mossy Creek 

 and Lookout Mountain). 



Etymology : Lat., green. 



The locality, Brazil, assigned by Gervais (Cast. Exp. l'Ainer. Slid, 

 Pt. vn, 34) to this species is erroneous, as viridis is not found S. of 

 the United States. 



10. Scolopendra heros. 



1853. — Scolopendra here* Girard. Marcy's Red. R. Exp., App. F, 243 (Texas); Wood, 

 Jouru. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18, 1862 (Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Xew Mexico, 

 Arizona, Mexico); Wood, Trans. Anier. Phil. Soc, 155, 1865; Porath, Sv. Vet. - 

 Akad. Handl., 8, 1876 (Texas) ; Cragin, Bull. Washt. Coll. Biol. Surv., iv, 143 

 (Turkey Creek); Meinert, Proc. Arher. Phil. Soc, 195, 1886 (WesificU, N.JT.; 

 Mammoth Care, Ky.; Key West, Ila.; Alexandria and Seabrook Island, Ga.; 

 Mobile and Spring Hill, Ala.; Galveston, Tex.; Monterias, San Luis I'otosi, and 

 (luaymas, Mex. ; San Diego, Gal. : Fort Riley, Kans.) ; Underwood, Ent. Amer., 

 63,1887; Bollman, Ent. Amer., 6, 1888 (Little Rock, Murfreesboro, and Muddy 

 Fork, Ark.). 



1861. — Scolopendra easianieepe Wood. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 11 (Texas). 



1862. — Scolopendra heros castauiceps Wood. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18, 1862; 

 Wood, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 156, 1865; Cragin, Bull. Washt. Coll. Biol. 

 Surv., IV, 144. 1885 (Barber County, Kans.). 



1861. — Scolopendra, polymorpha Wood. Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 11 (Fort Riley, 

 Kans.); Wood, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 20, 1862 (Kansas, Texas, Ari- 

 zona, Mexico); Wood, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 158, 1865; Kohlrausch, Archiv 

 Naturg., 114, 1881; Cragin, Bull. Washt. Coll. Biol. Surv., iv, 144, 1885 (Rice, 

 Finley, and Barber Co., Kans.). 



1862. — Scolopendra copeana Wood. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 27 (California); 

 Wood, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 165, 1865. 



1885. — Scolopendra heros pusinatica Cragin, Bull. Washt. Coll. Biol. Surv., iv, 144 

 (Medicine Lodge, Barber Co., Kans.). 



Habitat. — Central America, Mexico ; in United States N. to Califor- 

 nia, Utah, Kansas, Kentucky, and Georgia. 



Etymology. — Lat., a demigod. 



A careful study of a large amount of material of this species may 

 establish several subspecies. 



11. Scolopendra crudelis. 



1847. — Scolopendra crudelis Koch. Syst. Myr., 170 (Barthelymi) ; Koch, Die Myr., II, 



36, Tab. lxxvii, lxxviii, Figs. 158, 159, 1863; Porath, Sv. Vet.-Akad. 



Hand]., 7, 1876 (? New York); Kohlrausch, Archiv Naturg., .20, 1881; 



Meinert, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 194, 1886; Underwood, Ent. Amer., 63, 



1887 (Florida, Tortugas, Key West, Hayii). 

 1861. — Scolopendra lomjipes Wood. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 26 (Ft. Jefferson, 



Garden Key, Fla.; .' Halifax, A'. S.); Wood, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 163, 



1865. 



Habitat. — West Indies and southern Florida. 

 Etymology. — Lat., unmerciful. 



Porath mentions a specimen of crudelis from Neic York, but this is 

 erroneous or else it is one that has been introduced by shipping. 



