(Mopoda,  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 
