﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  ENTOMOLOGIST 
  3OI 
  

  

  The 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  are 
  yellowish, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  with 
  two 
  minute 
  serra- 
  

   tions, 
  the 
  anterior 
  one 
  bearing 
  a 
  small 
  seta 
  (PI. 
  XV, 
  fig. 
  4). 
  The 
  rhom- 
  

   boidal 
  gnathochilarium 
  is 
  represented 
  in 
  fig. 
  7 
  of 
  plate 
  XV. 
  The 
  

   copulatory 
  legs 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  are 
  abruptly 
  flexed 
  and 
  terminate 
  in 
  four 
  

   slender, 
  curved 
  processes 
  (PI. 
  XV, 
  fig. 
  6), 
  which 
  are 
  nearly 
  colorless, 
  and 
  

   vary 
  slightly 
  in 
  form 
  in 
  different 
  individuals. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  event 
  of 
  this 
  being 
  a 
  form 
  new 
  to 
  science, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  known 
  

   as 
  Leptodesmus 
  falcatus, 
  in 
  allusion 
  to 
  the 
  hook-hke 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  

   process 
  of 
  the 
  copulatory 
  legs. 
  This 
  species 
  was 
  also 
  found 
  swarming 
  

   in 
  soil 
  containing 
  house 
  plants 
  in 
  Albany, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  the 
  following 
  season. 
  

  

  The 
  Allied 
  Genus 
  Polydesmus. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  evidently 
  closely 
  aUied 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Folydesmus, 
  of 
  which 
  a 
  com- 
  

   mon 
  form 
  in 
  Europe 
  is 
  Polydesmus 
  compla7iatus, 
  or 
  " 
  the 
  flattened 
  mil- 
  

   lipede 
  " 
  (fig. 
  8) 
  — 
  represented 
  by 
  Curtis 
  and 
  other 
  writers 
  as 
  being 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  most 
  destructive 
  of 
  its 
  kind, 
  feed- 
  

   ing 
  upon 
  the 
  roots 
  of 
  wheat, 
  onions, 
  

   pansies, 
  and 
  several 
  garden 
  products. 
  

   Dr. 
  Fitch, 
  in 
  his 
  loth 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  Insects 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  has 
  given 
  a 
  Fig. 
  8.- 
  Polydesmus 
  complanatus, 
  slightly 
  

   J 
  ^ 
  ., 
  J 
  ^ 
  r 
  ^^ 
  11-, 
  r 
  enlarged. 
  (From 
  Brehms 
  Tierlebcn.) 
  

  

  detailed 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  one 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  "flattened 
  centipedes" 
  which 
  he 
  regarded 
  as 
  identical 
  with 
  

   the 
  European 
  co77iplanatus. 
  It 
  seems, 
  however, 
  to 
  be 
  different, 
  for 
  that 
  

   species 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  recognized 
  as 
  yet 
  in 
  our 
  country. 
  It 
  is 
  thought 
  

   that 
  the 
  form 
  that 
  Dr. 
  Fitch 
  wrote 
  of 
  (without 
  any 
  accompanying 
  

   description) 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  Polydesmus 
  Caiade?isis 
  Newport, 
  — 
  

   figured 
  and 
  briefly 
  described 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Packard 
  in 
  his 
  Guide 
  to 
  the 
  Study 
  

   of 
  Insects, 
  page 
  677, 
  and 
  referred 
  by 
  BoUman 
  to 
  Polydesmus 
  serraius 
  

   Say. 
  He 
  represents 
  it 
  as 
  " 
  crawling 
  everywhere 
  over 
  the 
  damp 
  surface 
  

   of 
  the 
  ground 
  by 
  night, 
  in 
  search 
  of 
  the 
  nicest, 
  daintiest 
  food 
  it 
  could 
  

   discover 
  and 
  withdrawing 
  into 
  the 
  crevices 
  under 
  chips, 
  stones, 
  and 
  

   similar 
  situations 
  during 
  the 
  daytime." 
  The 
  underside 
  of 
  cucumbers 
  

   lying 
  on 
  the 
  damp 
  ground 
  were 
  often 
  almost 
  covered 
  with 
  them 
  and 
  the 
  

   skin 
  much 
  eaten. 
  The 
  roots 
  of 
  onions 
  when 
  lifted 
  were 
  found 
  eaten 
  

   entirely 
  ofl" 
  by 
  them 
  — 
  completely 
  arresting 
  the 
  growth 
  of 
  the 
  bulb. 
  From 
  

   finding 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  worms 
  in 
  the 
  stalks 
  of 
  cabbage 
  distorted 
  with 
  warty 
  

   swellings 
  and 
  cracks, 
  Dr. 
  Fitch 
  was 
  led 
  to 
  beheve 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  the 
  

   cause 
  of 
  the 
  disease 
  known 
  as 
  " 
  anbury 
  " 
  or 
  " 
  club-foot 
  " 
  in 
  cabbage. 
  

  

  