Myriapod Types of Oscar Harger 3 



after waiting for the military escort, it is evident that during most of 

 the part of October that the group was in the John Day Valley, 

 it was resting in Canyon City. Consequently, there was ample time 

 for relaxed explorations in the vicinity of Canyon City, and I, therefore, 

 believe that Harger 's myriapods were collected near this town. Because 

 Harger's paper specifies that L. pinetorum, I. furcifer, and P. armatus 

 were collected by Professor Collier and himself, and T. glomeratum 

 was taken by Harger alone, collecting probably occurred on at least 

 two different dates, as one day Harger went out alone and the other 

 he was accompanied by Collier. There could be as few as one site 

 and as many as four, but further specification is not possible with 

 what we know now. Consequently, the type locality for all of Harger's 

 Oregon species is restricted to the vicinity of Canyon City, Grant 

 County, on the western slope of the Blue Mountains. 



Harger's centipedes have received little attention since their 

 description. They were included in the catalog of North American 

 myriapods by Bollman (1893), who noted that G. gracilis Harger, 

 1872, was preoccupied by G. gracilis Meinert, 1870, proposed for a 

 European geophilomorph. Cook and Collins (1891) remarked that 

 Harger's description of G. gracilis conformed very closely to Schendyla 

 nemorensis (C. L. Koch, 1837), and the former is now regarded as a 

 junior synonym (Crabill 1953, 1961). Stuxberg (1875) included L. 

 pinetorum in his list of North American lithobiids, but he had no 

 personal knowledge of the species. Kevan (1983a) listed both species 

 as potential inhabitants of Canada, recognizing the synonymy of G. 

 gracilis under S. nemorensis. 



In contrast to the centipeds, Harger's millipeds have been cited 

 in a number of publications, but the type specimens were thought to 

 be lost. Chamberlin and Hoffman (1958) stated that their "present 

 location [was] unknown" or that they were "not known to exist," and 

 similarly, Shear (1971, 1972) said that the holotypes of T. glomeratum 

 and T. iuloides were lost and that the whereabouts of that of T. 

 lunatum was unknown. Causey (1967) guessed right when she stated 

 that the holotype of T. lunatum was at the "Peabody Museum of 

 Natural History, Yale University, if extant," but evidently she made 

 no inquiries to confirm this supposition. While recently visiting the 

 Peabody's Museum's collection, I unexpectedly discovered these types 

 in the myriapod cabinet, where they have languished in obscurity for 

 120 years. A few vials were still capped with wax and had not been 

 touched for decades. The types of P. armatus were in the general 

 collection and not labeled as such, but those of the other millipeds 

 were clearly marked as types and grouped in a clamp-top jar. A 

 concerted search failed to reveal the types of G. gracilis, which ap- 



