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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE, 
MirilOPODA 
BY 
W. S. Dallas, P.L.S., M.E.S. 
Peters, W, Uebersicht der im K. zoologischen Museum 
bcfind lichen Myriopodeii aus der Familieder Polydesmi, so 
wie Beschreibuugen einer neuen Gattung, TrachyjaluSy der 
Juli, und neuer Arteii der Gattung Siptmwphora. Monats- 
bericht* der Kon. Preuss. Akad. der Wiss. zu Berlin, July 
1864., pp. 529-551. 
Tliis list contains 79 species of Polydesmidae^ of wliicli 37 are 
described as new. The classification adopted by the author 
will be indicated below, 
Peters, W. Nachtrag zur Uebersicht der Polydesmi des Kon. 
zoologischen Museums. Monatsber. Kon. Preuss. Akad. 
der Wiss. zu Berlin, October 1864, pp. 617-627. 
Stein, J. P. E. F. Ueber Glcmeris dahnatina (Stein) . Berliner 
entom. Zeitschr. 1864, pp. 385, 386. 
Wood, H. C. Descriptions of new species of North American 
Polydesmid(je. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1864, January 
(pp. 6-10). 
Wood, H. C. Descriptions of new species of North American 
Julid(B. Ibid. (pp. 10-16). 
Wood, H. C. Descriptions of new genera and species of North 
American Myriapoda. Ibid. September (pp. 186, 187). 
Vogt (Vorlcsungen fiber nfitzliche und schadliche Thiere, 
pp. 91-94) notices some forms of Myriopoda. 
PoLYDESMIDiE. 
Prof. Peters (Monatsber. Berk Akad. 1864, pp. 529-547) has 
given a summary of the species of this family contained in the 
Royal Zoological Museum of Berlin. His arrangement of the 
genera and subgenera here illustrated is as follows : — 
Genus Sphcenocles?mis, n. g. (see below). 
Oniscodesmus, Gerv. 
Cyrtodesmus, G er v. 
Polydesmusj Latr, 
