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vision of Chilognaths, allied not remotely to the Lysiopetalidse ; or at 
least that they are true diplopod Myriopods. Hence we are still reduced 
for our materials for a phylogeny of the Myriopods to existing orders, Pau- 
ropus being, perhaps, a more aberrant and stranger type than any fossil 
forms yet discovered. 
EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES. 
Fig. 1. Head of Scolopendra, seen from beneath, showing the ‘“mandible’’ 
(protomala) with its cardo (card.) and stipes (stv. ), also the labrum 
and epilabrum. 
Fig. 2. So-called under lip or deutomala of Scoterpes copet ; hyp., “ hypo- 
stoma ;’? lam. lad., lamina labialis ; stp. ¢., stipes exterior; with 
the malella eaterior (mal. e.) and malella interior (ml. 7.) ; the 
stipes interior (stip. ¢.), with its malulella; and the labdella, with 
its stilus (stil.). 
Fig. 8. The deutomala of Julus sp. ; the lettering as in Fig. 2. Author 
del, 
Stated Meeting, May 18, 1888. 
Present, 9 members. 
President, Mr. Frauey, in the Chair. 
Dr. Heilprin, a newly-elected member, was introduced to 
the presiding officer, and took his seat. 
A. letter requesting a renewal of correspondence was received 
from the Keyptian Institute. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from the Royal 
Societies at Amsterdam and Munich. 
Letters of envoy were received from the Heyptian Institute, 
and the Royal Academy at Munich. 
Letters requesting No. 95 from the Manchester Literary and 
Philosophical Society, April 26; and requesting 102, 108, 104, 
from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, April 20, were 
read and referred, 
Donations were received from the Egyptian Institute; Cen- 
tral Observatory at St. Petersburg; Royal Geological Insti- 
PROC. AMER. PHILOZ. SOU. XXI. 114, 24. PRINTED OoTOBER 30, 1883. 
