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triangular excavation at the anterior lateral angle. The tenth and eleventh 
segments broader than those before them. Black, shining, more or less 
marbled with dark testaceous. Length, ‘75 inch. Breadth, :4 inch. Width 
of head, :2 inch. Depth of head :12 inch. 
Hab. Dunedin. 
This species differs from S. delacyi (White, Ann. Nat. Hist., 3 Ber., HL; 
p. 406), whieh I have not seen, in its colour, in not being attenuated 
posteriorly, and in the head being much broader and shorter. In other 
respects the two are very similar. 
APPENDIX. 
As Humbert and Saussure's paper, in which the Myriopoda taken from 
New Zealand by the Novara Expedition are described, is not very accessible 
in New Zealand, I subjoin their descriptions. 
Polydesmus ( Oxyurus) haastii, 
Fusco-niger, eorpore antice attenuato, plus minus granulato; carinis 
retrorsum uncinatis, poris lateralibus; dorso antice valde arcuato, dein 
minus convexo; metazonites suleo obsoleto partitis, pone suleum serie 
transversa areolarum sex ornatis. Fem., long. 25 mill.; larg. 4 mill. 
Hab. Auckland, Waikato River. 
Polydesmus (Strongylosoma) novare. 
Fusco-castaneus, lævis, nitidus; carinis pedibusque flavidis; primo 
segmento antice valde arcuato, lobis lateralibus antice sulco marginali ; 
segmento secundo cingulum efficiente, utrinque quadratim secto, margine 
reflexo, carinam elongatum linearem efficiente ; carinis reliquis in media 
altitudine corporis sitis, crassiusculis, postice Pabangalahu. sed non pro- 
ductis ; poris lateralibus; segmento prm-anali apice in processum lamel- 
larem et obtusum nd. metazonites sulco profundo transversali 
partitis. Long., 18 mill. ; larg., 2:5 mill 
Hab. Auckland. 
Polydesmus ( Icosidesmus ) hochstetteri. 
Albidus, depressus, nitidus; corpore antice et postico attenuato; an- 
tennis gracilibus, elongatis, acliculis 2? et 8? longioribus; primo cedi 
semi-orbieulari, angulis rotundatis, segmentis 2-4 minutis, tertio minore ; 
metazonites transversis, utrinque rotundatis, margine postico crasso, carinis 
parum prominulis; tuberis nullis; poris minimis, superis, marginalibus ; 
segmento prz-anali minuto, trigonali, lamina pre-anali trapizina. 
20 mill; lare., 2-7 mill. 
Hab. Auckland. 
Long., 
