354 TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. xix. 



Myriopoda. — Amongst the species of Centipedes which were 

 obtained in Ecuador, two, belonging to the genus Newportia, are 

 considered new by Mr. R. I. Pocock ; and have been described by 

 him under the names N. monticola and N. dentata in the Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History for August, 1890. The former 

 of these came from La Dormida, Cayambe (11,800 feet), and the 

 latter from the Seventh Camp on Chimborazo (12,000 feet). Two 

 of the others, namely, Otistigma scahricauda (Humb. & Sauss.), and 

 Scolopocryptops Mexicanus, Humb. & Sauss., have a rather wide 

 range. The first-named w^as obtained at various localities between 

 8500 - 12,000 feet, and the other was found nearly everywhere in 

 the interior up to 13,300 feet. It was taken at Tortorillas (Chim- 

 borazo), at the Hacienda of Antisana, and at many intermediate 

 points.^ Only one species of Millipede was seen in the interior, 

 namely, Spiroholus spinipodex, Karsch, and this was found as high as 

 12,000 feet on Pichincha, and from 12,000 to 13,000 feet on the south 

 side of Chimborazo. Another Millipede, 9 Spirostreptns cequat or talis ^ 

 Porath, was taken on the banks of the Guayas, at Guayaquil. 



CoLEOPTERA. — Descriptions of 104 new species, by Messrs. H. 

 W. Bates, D. Sharp, H. S. Gorham, A. S. Olliff and M. Jacoby will 

 be found at pp. 7-88 in the Supplement- 

 ary Appendix. The number of beetles 

 obtained on this journey which, thus 

 far, have been identified or described 

 amounts to two hundred and six. 



Orthoptera. — The whole of this col- 

 lection remains undescribed. Leaping 

 Orthoptera were found very numerous 

 up to the height of 12 - 13,000 feet, and 

 upon Chimborazo were obtained in the 

 Vallon de Carrel at 16,000 feet. Ear- 



CAYAMBE, ENLARGED FOUR 



wigs were not generally abundant in the diameters. 



1 I understand from Mr. Pocock that this is a Mexican species, and is common 

 in the West Indies and in Brazil. 



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