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Newport’s Memoir on the Nervous and Vascular Systemsof the Myriapoda has been spoken of in the Introduction.
Chilognatiia. —Lucas (Ann. d. 1. Soc. Eut. d. Er. 2 ser. i, p. 43) liasinstituted a new genus, Platydesmus, resembling Polydesmus, in the form ofthe rings of the body, but differing from it in the small triangular head, thepresence of eyes, and the suctorial oral apparatus; the now species, PI.polydesmoides, is from Guatemala .
Newport has instituted two new English species, Mm sandwicensis(Proceed. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 66), and I. pilosus (ib. p. 69), and farther,Spirotreptus antipodarum (Dieffenb. Trav. ii, p. 270), from New Zealand .
Chilopoda . —Templeton has communicated a short paper on Cermatia.(Transact. Ent. Soc. Lond. iii, p. 306.) He divides the genus into twogroups, (a) Body elongated, distinctly broader in the middle : (1) C. ara-neoides, Pall.; (2) C. longicornis, Hardw., from Bengal; (3) C. nobilis, n.sp., from the Mauritius and India ; (4) C. coleoptmta, Lam., from the Southof Europe ; (5) C. capensis, n. sp., from the Cape.—( b ) Body short, andnearly of uniform breadth; (6) C. longipes, Lam.
Scolopendra, rubriceps, from New Zealand , has been instituted as a newspecies by Newport. (Dieff. Trav. ii, p. 270.)