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end of my paper a list of the principal publications which treat 

 in any way of the Myriopoda of the Oriental Region. Of these 

 special mention may be made of the excellent monograph of the 

 Chilopoda published by Dr. Erich Haase (" Die Indisch-Austra- 

 lischen Chilopoden," Abh. Ber. zool. Mus. Dresden, 1887). 



I. CHILOPODA. 

 Family Scolopendeid^. 

 Genus Scolopendea, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1062, ex parte ; 

 Newport, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 377. 



Scolopendea stjbspinipes, Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. p. 383. 



Yar. de Haanti, Brandt, Becueil etc. p. 59. 



This variety, characterized by the absence of spines from the 

 under surface of the anal femora, is very commonly met with in 

 the Oriental Region. 



Specimens were taken in Sullivan Island, King Island, and 

 Kisseraing. 



Genus Otostigma, Porath, Bih. Sv. Vet.-AJcad. 

 Handl. B. iv. p. 18. 

 Syn. Branchiotrema, Kohlrausch, Arch. f. Natury. 

 Jahrg. 47, p. 70. 

 Otostigma caelnatum, Porath, op. cit. p. 20. 

 Var. insulaee, Haase, op. cit. p. 69. 



Four specimens, one from Sullivan Island and three from 

 King Island. 



This southern variety of the Chiuese species has been recorded 

 from Java and Ceylon. 



Family Geophilidje. 

 Genus Mectstocepkalus, Newp. Proc. Zool. Soc. x. p. 178. 



M KCISTOCKIMIALUS L'UN CTJF110NS, Newp. t. C. p. 179, 1812. 



Syn. M. hcros, Meinert, Proc. Anxer. Phil. Soc. xxiii. p. 211, 

 1880. 



One adult specimen from Mergui, one adult and one young 

 from Sullivan Island, and one young from ICing Island. 

 A widely distributed Oriental species. 



Dr. Meinert, by whom these specimens were examined, identified 

 them with his MecisLocephalus heros, a species recorded from the 

 Island of Mauritius. After carefully comparing them with the 

 type specimen of Mccislocephalus punctifrons (Newport), and 

 finding that they differ from it in no eonstant character, I have 



