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CR YP TODESMOIDES. 
prominences are pointed ; the third joint of the third legs is enor- 
mously enlarged, and bears on its ventral face a large excavation 
surrounded by a fringe of hairs 
Genus Cryptodesmoides Pocock, 1895. 
Aun. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) XIV, p. 790. 
In a Burman species called Cr. fees Mr. Pocock has discovered 
pores located in the posterior half of the carinae, bat distant from the 
coiner. The plate does not agree with the description which says, 
“ well removed from and about equidistant from the lateral and poste- 
rior borders. ’ ’ According’ to the figure they are close to the lateral edge. 
Following the description we may suppose that the location is not so 
very distant from that in Ophrydesmus, but the genera are doubtless 
distinct by other characters. The Cryptodesmi of Weber' s Reise may 
probably be referred to Ophrydesmus. There appears to be another 
disagreement between the figures and the description t; according 
to the last the dorsal granules become less pronounced laterad, which 
is true of nearly all related forms, but according to the figures there 
is a median granular area, with the carinae nearly smooth. 
Family OTODESMID^, nov. 
Under this head are to be accommodated Trichopeltis Poc. and 
Otodesmus, a new genus founded on Trichopeltis watsoni Poc. The 
pores are located at the base of very broad, decurved carinse, near the 
anterior margin. Otodesmus differs from Trichopeltis in the shape 
* Ophrydesmus cede, sp. n., is the type; the carinae are horizontal, the color 
is uniform dark brown above, with pale legs and yellowish antennae ; 
length 20 mm., width 5 mm. ; locality the volcano Gede, Western Java. 
Beside O. gede, I have the following species : 
O. SCAURUS, sp. n. Dorsum more convex and more decidedly granular, the 
carinae narrower and somewhat more pointed than in the first species ; 
color lighter brown, the carinae yellowish ; antennae yellowish, more 
slender than in O. gede. Length 15 mm., width 3.5 mm. ; locality as for 
O. gede. 
O. TENGGER, Sp. fi. Differing from O. gede apparently mostly in size ; lon- 
gitudinal impression of the sterna broader and not so deep, and the four 
divisions not so prominent; length 13 mm., with 3.5 mm. ; Tengger, 
East Java, 1200 feet. 
O. PUGNUS, sp. n. Smaller and more slender than any of the above. In the 
pronounced granulation, somewhat narrower carinae and more convex 
dorsum resembling O. scaurus rather than the other species ; length 10 
mm., width 2.2 mm. ; Pengalengang. 
The copulatory legs afford other diagnostic characters, but they are so com- 
plicated that it seems idle to attempt to describe them without the aid of 
drawings. 
t Pocock, Myriapoda of Weber’s Reise III, pp. 374 - 376 , Pf XXII, 
figs. 13-15. 
