MYRIOPODA. 
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MYlilOPODA 
BY 
W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. 
Koch, L. (See " Arachnida.^^) 
"Wood, H. C. Descriptions of New Species of Texan Myria- 
poda. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1867, pp. 42-44. 
. Notes on a Collection of California Myriapoda, with tlie 
descriptions of new Eastern Species. Ibid. pp. 127-130. 
In this paper the author remarks that several species for- 
merly described by him as from Georgia are probably strictly 
Californian, he having in all probability been led into error by 
the mingling in one bottle of Dr. Leconte^s Georgian and Cali- 
fornian collections of Myriopods. 
Von Martens (Preuss. Exped. nacli Ost-Asien, Zool. p, 12) notices the 
forms of Myriopoda observed by him in Madeira. Species of Julus were parti- 
cularly abundant, especially in the lower region. Forms allied to Lithohins, 
and GeophiluSy were also met with ; Cermatia coleoptrata lives in the houses. 
At Rio Janeiro (1. c. p. 36) Julus and Pohjdesmus are abundant as in Europe^ 
but associated with the great tropical Scolopendrcs. The bite of the latter in 
.Tapan (1. c. p. 130) is painful, but produces no other effects. Other Japanese 
INIyriopoda noticed by Von Martens are small pale yellow species of JtduSy 
and Polydesmi^ spotted with orange {osamusi of the Japanese Encyclopaedia). 
The Japanese name of the Scolopendrce is mukadej 
CHILOPODA. 
The habits of various species of this order are noticed by Goureau (In- 
sectes niiisibles a ITIomme &c. pp. 215-219, see ^^Insecta”). He mentions 
Scolopendra morsitans and Lithohius forcipatus as representatives of the more 
powerful forms of the group, which in warm climates are capable of producing 
injurious effects by their bite, and also Gcophihis electrieus as having caused 
mischief by passing through the nostrils and taking up its abode in the nasal 
fossae. 
Cermatitdas. 
Cermatia linceci ! sp. n., II. C. Wood, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1867, p. 42, 
Texas. 
LiTHOBIIDA3. 
Lithohins bilahifttns, sp. n., H. C. Wood, 1. c. p. 130, Illinois. — Lithohius puhescenSy 
