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ME. E. I. POCOCK ON THE 



Dorsal plates smooth, strongly bisulcate; area between the 

 sulci irregularly striated longitudinally. 



Ventral plates with shallow median depression ; porous area 

 occupying the posterior portion o£ the plate. 



Anterior pair of feet a little shorter and a little more slender 

 than the succeeding pairs. 



Posterior pleurae not coxiform, clothed with short hairs ; porous : 

 last ventral plate with lateral margins slightly converging 

 posteriorly; with rounded angles and straight hinder margin. 



Anal feet (in the female) much longer than the preceding pair ; 

 slender ; ultimate segment equal in length to the penultimate 

 and unarmed. 



115 pairs of legs. 



A single female specimen from Sullivan Island. 

 I have uarned this species after Dr. Meinert, to whom so much 

 of our knowledge of the Chilopoda is due. 



II. DIPLOPODA. 



Family G-iomekidj:. 



G-enus Gloheeis, Latr. Hist. Nat. d. Crust, iii. p. 44 ; 

 Leach, Zool. Misc. iii. p. 32, 1817. 



[Glomeeis caenifex, sp. n. Segments shining, black above, 

 with testaceous posterior margins ; lateral portion of second 

 segment pink or pale brick-red ; lateral margins of the remaining 

 segments either reddish or testaceous ; posterior half of posterior 

 somite pale pink or brick-red. — Tenasserim. Collected by 

 Mr. E. W. Oates; see Note, p. 301.] 



Glomeets caenifex, var. pallida, var. n. (Plate XXIV. 

 figs. 7, la.) 



Colour of under surface of head and of somites testaceous ; 

 upper surface of somites black, with testaceous posterior and 

 lateral margins ; a central longitudinal testaceous line, and a 

 large lateral testaceous spot, which in the anterior somites unites 

 with the marginal lateral testaceous patch. 



Segments shining ; thickly and finely punctured. First dorsal 

 plate with two transverse stri«'e ; second with from seven to ten 

 lateral stria) ; remaining dorsal plates with from three to five stria). 



Eye on each side consisting of from six to eight ocelli arranged 

 in a linear series and of a single ocellus situated on the outside 



