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parts of New Zealand, so that at a not distant time in the future it 
should be possible to issue an extensive list of localities for this and 
other New Zealand geophilomorphs. 
Zelanophilus pococki 3 new species 
Holotype: Female. Type locality: Australia, New South Wales, 
Hornsby; August 21, 1931; William Morton Wheeler, leg. Dispo- 
sition: Myriapod Type Collection of the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, Harvard University. 
Introductory. Total length: 67 mm. Pedal segments: 73. Body 
shape: Width essentially uniform from front to rear; however, the 
final 5-6 segments slightly narrowing. Color: Head and tergites 
approximately of anterior two-thirds of body yellowish-brown ; without 
extensive unpigmented areas (cf. provocator ) ; legs and underparts 
in general paler in color. 
Antennae. Length (unextended in balsam) : 3.75 mm. Shape: 
Distally very slightly attenuate; not flattened. Vestiture (dorsal 
aspect) : From 2nd to final article the setae decreasing gradually in 
length and increasing gradually in number. Ultimate article on lateral 
and mesal surfaces with an elongate patch of short, hyaline, robust 
specially-modified setae. Cephalic plate. Dimensions: Greatest 
length, 1.44 mm; greatest width, 1.32 mm. Shape: Sides slightly 
excurved ; anterior and posterior margins straight. Setae short and 
sparse. Frontal suture present but obscure. Prebasal plate concealed. 
Clypeus. As limited laterally by paraclypeal sutures much wider 
than greatest length. Paraclypeal sutures: Sinuous; posteriorly pass- 
ing toward but failing to join middle of labral fulcra (fulturae). 
Fenestra (clypeal area) absent. Immediately behind anterior margin 
of clypeus on each side of midline a very weak, fragmented, obscure 
plagula (lissate or smooth area). Well-defined, large prelabral plag- 
ulae present. Setae : Anterior third of clypeus across its entire width 
with numerous long setae randomly disposed ; remaining two-thirds of 
clypeus glabrous; prelabral pair of setae absent. Labrum. With 
prominent anterior alae, these completely separated from clypeus by 
a continuous suture. Sidepieces: Apparently contiguous centrally, the 
midpiece either incorporated into them or concealed by them ; centrally- 
located teeth very slightly pigmented and shorter than the lateral 
filaments which are long, thin, and hyaline. Fulcrum: Massive; 
3 Dedicated to Reginald Innis Pocock, late of the British Museum (Natural 
History), a pioneer student of the myriapods of the Australian area. Dr. 
Pocock’s writings, though undertaken at a comparatively early time, still stand 
as outstanding examples of remarkable systematic intuition and discern- 
ment and unambiguous clarity of exposition. 
