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For a fuller account of the history of this section of our 

 Fauna, I would refer you to the introductory part of Dr 

 Scott's Catalogue. 



MYEIAPODA.i 



(Centipedes and Millipedes.) 



A' few Centipedes and Millipedes were recorded from the 

 neighbourhood of Edinburgh by C. Stewart in his 1809 list 

 of " Insects," and by Dr W. E. Leach, of the British Museum, 

 in his papers on Crustaceology, etc., a few years later, 1813- 

 1815 (Brewster's Udin. EncycL, and Trans. Linn. Soc). The 

 types of Leach's Crasjpedosoma ratvlinsii were got near the 

 city, where it still occurs. A short list of eleven " Insecta 

 Myriapoda found in Berwickshire," by Dr G. Johnston, 

 appeared in 1835 in Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, 

 but no precise localities are given, and we cannot tell what 

 species, if any, were known to him from the corner of the 

 county falling into "Forth." In 1882 Sir T. D. Gibson- 

 Carmichael contributed to the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Physical Society a preliminary list of Scottish Myriapoda, 

 in which seven have Forth localities assigned to them. In 

 recent years I have myself given considerable attention to 

 the group, with the object of supplying a list for the Forth 

 area. My paper on the subject was laid before this Society 

 towards the close of last session, and is being published in 

 the Proceedings.'^ Exclusive of a few aliens, it deals with 

 33 species, 16 belonging to the class Chilopoda (Centipedes), 

 1 {Scolopendrella immacidata) to Symphyla, and 16 to Diplo- 

 poda (Millipedes), and shows their distribution in consider- 

 able detail. 



About fifty species are, I believe, known to Mr E. 1. 

 Pocock to occur in the British Islands, but a number of them 

 are probably confined to the south of England, finding there 

 the more genial climate they require. Nevertheless, I feel 

 sure there are still a few here to reward further investiga- 



^ For convenience I here retain the term Myriapoda, but merely as a 

 collective name, and not as a " class " of which it embraces several. 



- "The Myriapods (Centipedes and Millipedes) of the Forth Area," Proc. 

 Roy. Fhys. Soc. Edin., xvi. pp. 405-414, and xvii. pp. 109-120. I had 

 previously, in An7i. Scot. Nat. Hist, for 1900 and 1901, recorded several 

 additions to the Scottish list from Forth. 



