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it. It is very common about Dunedin, where we find not only specimens 
resembling the type in colour, but also a variety of a pale rose-red, marbled 
with white, and with white legs. The specimens from Preservation Inlet 
are entirely blackish-brown. 
The length is about an inch, and the number of segments is 19, not 
including the head and anus. It has 29 pairs of legs, the 2nd, 3rd, and 
4th segments having only one pair. The 2nd and 8rd joints of the antennz 
are equal and longer than the 4th, 5th, and 6th. 
Polydesmus (Strongylosoma ) macrocephala, sp. n 
Antennæ 7-jointed, all finely pubescent ; en nd 5th the shortest. 
First segment smaller than the head ; lateral margins rounded. Segments 
smooth, very slightly keeled on each side. Pre-anal segment terminating 
in a blunt point without any hairs; the inferior semi-circular with a 
longitudinal keel. White with pale brown spots and vermiculations. 
Length, °6 inch. 
Hab. Dunedin. 
Craspedosoma trisetosa, sp. nov. Fig. 5. 
Antenne 7-jointed, reaching back to the 7th segment; the first and 
last joints short, the 3rd longest. Eye-pateh pyriform ; eyes in four rows, 
of 6, 6, 5, and 4 respectively. Segments 32, finely granulated on the 
back, and with a depressed longitudinal line down the centre; the lateral 
margins straight. Each segment with three long bristles on each side, 
springing from tubercles, of which the lowest is the largest, and the highest 
the smallest. Antenne and legs with short hairs. Head yellowish, with a 
dark band between the antenne. Eyes and antenne dark brown. Segments 
blackish-brown, each with oblique bands of olive before and behind the 
setiferous papille. Legs pale yellow, marked with dark brown on the last 
two or three joints. Occasionally it is brown, marbled with olive. Length 
Spharotherium leiosomus, sp. nov. Fig. 6. 
Head sparingly, coarsely, irregularly punetured, with a deep central 
transverse depression at the posterior margin, and a few short bristles in 
front. Antenne slightly setose, six-jointed ; the last joint cylindrical, 
rounded at the tip. Nuchal plate smooth, but uneven, with a slight central 
depression in front, and an anterior marginal ridge. Dorsal plates covered 
with very fine shallow punctures. First dorsal segment with a distinct 
lateral marginal ridge. Last dorsal segment arched, slightly compressed, 
its margin entire and not ridged. Intermediate segments with the lateral 
extremities broad, rounded in front and rectangular behind; with a rough 
