MYRIOPODA. 
2 Myr. 
cavauncB, Fauz. ; G. palustris, Fanz., = proximus, Koch ; G. maxil- 
laris^ Fanz., = ferruginous^ Koch. 
PORATH, 0. 0. VON. Oin nagra exotiska Myriopoder. Sv. Ak. Hand!., 
Bihang iv. 2, pp. 1-48. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
Lombardy : Pavesi, Bull. Ent. Ital. x. (Resoc. delle Adun.), p. 21. 
Rome : R. Pirotta, Ann. Mus. Genov, xii. pp. 668 & 569, enumerates 
14 species. A few observations are made on Scolopendra hispanica. 
The same author, Ann. Mus. Genov, xi. pp. 379-410, gives a Systematic 
Catalogue of the 27 Myriopods collected during the voyage of the Italian 
ship “ Violante” from Genoa to Constantinople in 1876, with their locali- 
ties. Three are described as new. 
Algiers and Spain : F. P. Pascoe, Pr. E. Soc. 1878, p. xxxviii. 
Russia : A. Sceliwanow, Troudy Ent. Ross. xi. p. 3 et seq., contributes 
to the knowledge of Russian species, describing 9 as new. [Not seen by 
the Recorder.] 
Japan; L. Koch, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxvii. [for 1877, published in 1878], 
in “ Japanesische Arachniden und Myriapoden,” pp. 787-797, describes 
9 new species of Chilopoda and 3 of Chilognatha. 
No\ra Scotia : S. H. Scudder, Mem. Best. Soc. ii. pp. 661 & 562, wood- 
cut, figures segments of the Carboniferous Myriopods described in his 
former paper, /. c. p. 211. 
Martinique, Barbados, and Antigua : T. A. Marshall, Pr. E. Soc. 
1878, pp. xxxvii. & xxxviii. 
Chilopoda. 
MacLeod, Jules. Recherches sur I’appareil venimeux des Myriapodes 
Chilopodes. Description des veritables glandes veneniques. Bull. 
Ac. Belg. (2) xlv. pp. 781-798, pi. 
Describes the forceps in the Chilopoda^ demonstrating the existence of 
a perforation in all of them, and describing and figuring the opening in 
Scutigera, Lithohius, Scolopendra, Oryptops, Himantarium, and Geophilus. 
The anterior glands, hitherto wrongly considered as poisou-secreting, are 
probably salivary ; true venomous glands have been found by the author 
in Scolopendra horrida^ and also in Lithohius forficatus, in a cavity in the 
distal part of the basilar joint of the forcipular hook (which is always 
comparatively voluminous in size), with an excretory canal opening at 
the point. These glands are composed of a special homogeneous coating, 
enveloping numerous elongated secretory cells, all of which end in small 
chitinised tubes, which empty themselves by small mouths into a cylin- 
drical chitinous excretory duct, strengthened by a spiraloid thickening 
which gives it the aspect of a trachea. There is therefore no special 
muscular coating, as in the veneniferous glands of the Arachnido. ; but, 
as the glands are embedded in the motor muscles of the forceps, a com- 
pressing und ejaculatory action probably takes place when the Ohilopod 
bites. 
