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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
MYJilOPODA 
IJY 
W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. 
Bergsoe, V., and Me inert, D. Daumarks Gcopliilcr. Natur- 
liistorisk Tidsskrift, 3rd scr. vol. pp, . 
A monograpli of the Danish species of Geophilidoi. 
Lubbock, Sir John. On Paurojnis, a new type of Centipede. 
Jonrn. Linn. Soc. vol, ix. pp. 179-180 ; January 30, 1867. 
Motsciiulsky, V. de. See Insecta. 
Wood, II. C. New Pohjzoniidoi, Gervais. Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Philad. 1865, pp. 172-173. 
The species described belong to the Glomeridoi. 
Botli groups of the M)U‘iopotla arc ropresentod in the Fiji Islands according 
to Gniffe (Verli. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. p. 589), and of both some A^ery 
large forms occur. One Geophilus is luminous at night. A large Julide 
{Spiroholus coluhrimis, Koch), Avhich occurs only in one island, secretes a 
very abundant acrid fluid, which causes it to be dreaded by the natives. 
CHILOPODA. 
SC0L0PENDRID.E. 
Scohpe^ulra pcnta(/ramma, sp. n., Motsciiulsky, Pull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix. 
part i. p. 200, from Japan. 
Geophilid^. 
Pergsoe and Meinert have published (Naturhist. Tidsskr. 3rd 
ser. vol. pp. ) a monograph of the Danish species of this 
family. They describe the general structural characters of the 
family, of which they give the following Latin diagnosis: — 
Fain. Geopliili : segmenta numerosa, inter se aequalia. Pedes 
breves, tarsis integris. Antennae 14-articnlatae. Oculi nulli.^' 
The authors admit the following genera among the Danish 
Geophilidee : — 
1, Geophilus (= Mecistocephalus and Arthronomedus, NoAvp.). Sp. G. 
ferruf/in<ms (Koch), G. electricus (Linn.), G. Imcjicornis (Leach), G. p)roximus 
(Koch), and G. truncorum, sp. n., Pergsoe &; Meinert, 1. c. p. 14. 
2. Snipccus, g. n.y Pergsoe Sc Meinert, 1. c. p. 15. Pody subdepressed, 
slightly attenuated before and behind ; labrum free, divided, laciniated or 
denticulated in the middle, laciniated at the sides ; mandibles Avitli a long. 
