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engaged  upon  his  admirable  work  on  the  Chilopoda  of  the  Austra- 
lian and  Oriental  Regions,  not  finding  a  representative  of  the  genus  in 
any  of  the  many  collections  examined  by  him,  wrote  to  me  for  in- 
formation respecting  Newport's  type.  This  I  supplied  in  the  form  of 
a  few  rough  sketches  which  Dr.  Haase,  with  courteous  acknowledg- 
ment of  their  authorship ,  reproduced  on  plate  VI  of  his  work.  The  genus 
was  thus  assigned  to  its  correct  position  in  the  family  of  Geophilidae 
upon  the  evidence  of  the  original  and  only  known  specimen.  But 
now,  about  forty  five  years  since  the  genus  was  characterised, 
Dr.  Max  Weber,  by  great  good  fortune,  has  obtained  a  second  spe- 
cimen, which  proves,  however,  to  be  the  representative  of  a  species 
distinct  from  cumingii.  This  distinctness  of  the  species  is  fortunate, 
for  it  enables  us  to  a  great  extent  to  say  what  characters  are  of 
generic  and  what  only  of  specific  value. 
Perhaps  little  less  interesting  than  the  rediscovery  of  Gonibregma- 
tus  is  the  discovery  in  Flores  of  the  new  genus  allied  to  Cryptops  to 
which  I  have  given  the  name  Paracryptops.  This  genus  appears  to 
be  a  specialised  form  of  Cryptops,  and,  although  exceedingly  curious, 
unfortunately  throws  little,  if  any  light  upon  the  affinities  of  the 
genera  of  Scolopendridae. 
II.  List  of  the  localities  with  the  species  that  were  obtained  at  each. 
Sumatra. 
Manindjau:  Lithobius  weberi,  Scolopendra  subspinipes;  Bhysida  rugu- 
losa;  Mecistocephalus  punctifrons. 
Fort  de  Kock:  Otostigmus  carinatus. 
Mount  Singalang:  Lithobius  weberi)  Mecistocephalus  spissus. 
Ajer  Mantjur:  Scolopendra  subspinipes. 
Singkarah:  Scolopendra  subspinipes;  Bhysida  immarginata ;  Cryptops 
ruficeps  ;  Mecistocephalus  punctifrons. 
Solok  :  Scolopendra  subspinipes  ;  Scolopendra  subspinipes  var.  de  haanii. 
Java. 
Buitenzorg:  Scutigera  longicornis;  Scolopendra  de  haanii;  Scolopendra 
pinguis;  Otostigmus  spinosus  ;  Otostigmus  latidens;  Bhysida  immar- 
ginata; Mecistocephalus  punctifrons  ;  Orphnceus  brevilabiatus. 
Tjibodas:  Henicops  albipes  ;  Lithobius  javanicus  ;  Mecistocephalus  punc- 
tifrons. 
