Chilopoda, Symphyla and Diplopoda 

 from the Malay Archipelago 



BY 



R. I. POCOCK, 



of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 

 With plate XIX, XX, XXI, XXII. 



Since doubtless it will soon be generally recognised that the ancient 

 group of Myriopoda has but little right to recognition as a natural 

 assemblage, I have in this paper treated the three classes Chilo- 

 poda, Symphyla and Diplopoda entirely independently of each other. 



Class CHILOPODA. 

 I. Introductory remarks. 



Dr. Max Weber obtained 22 species of this group, 9 of which ap- 

 pear to be undescribed. Four of the new forms were obtained in 

 Java, three in Sumatra, one in the Island of Saleyer and one in 

 Flores. The species from the two latter localities are deserving of 

 special notice. 



In the Island of Saleyer Dr. Max Weber rediscovered that scarce 

 and interesting genus of Geophilidae : Gonibregmatus. This genus was 

 established by Newport in 1845 upon a single dried specimen which 

 was brought by Cuming from the Philippine Islands and is preserved 

 in the British (Natural History) Museum. From 1845 to 1886 no 

 further reference was made to this genus, which was known to the 

 outside world merely from Newport's description and figure of the type 

 of the genus and species cumingii. In 1886 Dr. Erich Haase whilst 



