C HILO POD A. 
Myr, 3 
13. Scolopendra, Newp. Head-plate heart-shaped, expanded, 
c. 1 pair of eyes, or eyes absent. 
14. Monops, Gerv. A simple eye on each side. 
15. Cryptops, Leach. Eyeless; last back-plate of the usual form. 
16. Opisthemega, Wood. Eyeless ; last back-plate considerably 
larger than the preceding. 
The 26 figures are devoted partly to illustrating some of the new species 
and partly to various generic details. 
SoGRAFF, N. Vorlaiifige Mittheilungen fiber die Organisation der 
Myriapoden. Zool. Anz. ii. pp. 16-18. 
Discusses the internal anatomy of Chilopoda. 
A. Selevanoff publishes an important paper on Russian Myriopoda 
{Chilopoda \ Lithohius and Henicops), Trdudy Ent. Ross. xi. pp. 3-26, 
pi. i. The following known species are redescribed and figured ; — L. 
forjicatiLS, Linn., p. 8, figs. 1 & 2, Venator, Koch, p. 13, fig. 5, granulatus, 
Koch, p. 16, fig. 7, crasnpes, Koch, p. 17, fig. 9, sihiricus, Gerstf., p. 20, 
figs. 12 & 13, and Henicops fulvicornis. Mein., p. 25. 
The centipede does not bite, but, when alarmed, distils venom into the 
tiny incisions made by its numerous feet ; Nature, xxi. p. 12. 
Cermatia forceps : on its northern range, Am. Nat. xiii. pp. 527 & 711. 
Scolopocryptops mexicana, Humb. & Sauss., = S. sex-spinosa, Newp. ; 
Porath, Sv. Ak. Haiidl. Bihang iv. No. 7. 
Geophilus. Luminosity ; Feuill. Nat. x. pp. 14 & 26. 
New genera and species : — 
Branchiotrema, Kohlrausch, 1. c. pp. 58 & 70, vide supra. To contain 
D. multicarinatum, fig. 5, Japan, astenon, fig. 6, Ena, Tonga Islands, 1. c. 
p. 70, luzonicum, Luzon, calcitrans and tuberculatum, fig. 4, Rockhampton, 
Australia, spp. nn., and Branchiostoma scabricauda, Humbert & Saus- 
sure, fig. 7, 1. c. p. 71, pi. vi. 
Cupipes, id. 1. c. pp. 58 & 71. To contain Cormocephalus lineatus, 
Newp., C. brasiliensis, Humb. & Sauss., ? Scolopendra flavipes, Koch, 
and , C. amphieurys, figs. 8 & 9, Ponap^, Carolina Islands, microstoma, 
fig. 18, Mexico, and grcccus, locality unknown, p. 72, pi. vi., spp. nn. 
Otostigmus, Porath, 1. c. p. 18. Allied to Cormocephalus’, to contain 0. 
orientalis, Bombay, p. 19, scaber, China, carinatus, China (?), p. 20, rugti- 
losus, Mauritius, p. 21, spinosus, Java, p. 22, inermis, Buenos Aires, and 
appendiculatus, Rio Janeiro (? = Branchiostoma scabricauda, Sauss.), 
p. 23, spp. nn. 
Bothriog aster, A. SelevanofP, Zool. Anz. ii. p. 620. Allied to Geo- 
pliilus ; to contain 6r. signatus, Kessl. (essential characters given), B, 
affinis, Caucasus, and B. 7nei?ierti, Tmkej, spp. nn., p. 621. 
Scolopocryptops megacephalus, pi. vi. fig. 1, Rosario, luzonicus (Semper, 
MS.), Luzon, and S. (F) boholensis, Bohol, Kohlrausch, 1. c. p. 69. 7 
Heterostoma pygomega, id. 1. c. p. 69, pi. vi. fig. 2, Himalaya. 
Branchiostoma gracile, pi. vi. fig. 3, p. 69, and gymnopus, Banda, indi- 
cum, Rangoon, and affine, Zanzibar, p. 70, id. 1. c. j B. immarginum, 
Manilla, and obsoletum, Melbourne, Porath, I c. pp. 24 & 25. 
