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MYRIOPODA. 
BY 
W. F. Kirby, M.E.S., &c. 
The General Subject. 
Butler, A. G. Zoology of Rodriguez ; Myriopoda, Phil. Tr. clxviii* 
pp. 497-500. 
12 species enumerated; the descriptions of 10 described as new in 
Ann. N. H. (4) xvii. [cf. Zool. Rec. xiii.] are reproduced here; of these 12, 
one only occurs at Mozambique ; a second was originally described from 
an unknown locality, and a third is of doubtful occurrence at Bourbon ; 
the rest are all peculiar to Rodriguez, so far as is known at present. 
Karsch, F. Westafricanische Myriopoden und Arachniden. Z. ges. 
Nat. (3) iv. pp. 825-837. 
The Myriopoda mentioned comprise Heterostoma trigonopoda, Leach, 
Mecistocephalus punctifrons, Newp., Cryptodesmus gabonicus, Luc., 
Euryurus thomsoni, Luc., and 4 new species. 
PiROTTA, R. Intorni agli Ortotteri ed ai Myriapodi del Varesotto. 
Atti Soc. Ital. xxi. pp. 629-647. 
40 species of Myriopoda enumerated, some new to Italy. 
Plateau, F. Recherches sur les ph^nomeues de la digestion et sur la 
structure de Pappareil digestif chez les Myriapodos de Belgique. 
M6m. Oour. xlii. pp. 94, 3 pis. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
PoRATH,* C. O. V. Om nagra exotiska Myriopoder. Sv. Ak. Handl. 
Bihang iv. No. 7, pp. 48 [1876]. 
Includes full descriptions of several known species of Chilopoda and 
Diplopoda, in addition to the new ones. The genus Scolopendra is 
divided into 4 groups, as follows : — 
i. Collar es (vel Collaria, subg. n.). Scutum dorsale primum antice 
prope marginem sulco transverso, marginem sequente. {S, 
gigantea, Linn., = insigyiie, Gerv. ; S. crudelis^ Koch, = longipeSy 
Wood; &c.) 
Spelled Porat in this Memoir, but invariably hitherto given as above. — Ed. 
1879. [vOL. XVI.] C 1 
