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Show 1888.] MYRIOPODA, ETC. OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 557 hirsute, the distal much more slender and densely pubescent. Head-plate cordate, hirsute, without sulci; basal plate not visible. Maxillary sternite wide, simple, with toothless but bristly anterior margin ; maxillary feet bristly, inner margin not furnished with teeth; claw long and gently curved. Tergites scantily hairy and sparsely punctured; first without sulci and slightly overlapping the head-plate in front; second with two shallow sulci; the rest, with the exception of the last, bearing four sulci, two median, parallel, complete, and on each side one which, starting anteriorly near the median sulcus of its side, curves outwards and terminates on the surface of the tergite in the anterior region of the body, but reaches, or nearly reaches, the hinder margin of the plate in the posterior region of the body ; lateral margins not Cryptops inermipcs. raised. Sternites : each, the first excepted, furnished with a median longitudinal sulcus, and most of them with a median transverse sulcus, which cutting the other at right angles makes the form of a cross. The distinctness of this latter sulcus is variable, and it almost disappears in the posterior region of the body. Anal segment: tergite with parallel lateral margins and angularly produced posterior margin ; anterior portion of pleurite furnished with large, not close-set pores ; posterior portion without pores; posterior margins slightly convex and bristly, obtuse below; sternite with a median anterior abbreviated sulcus, slightly curved lateral margins and convex posterior margin. Legs (all that remain) remarkably hirsute, but none of the segments spiny or denticulated. Length about 27, of antennae 5g millim. One specimen beneath a stone in Flying-Fish Cove. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1888, No. XXXVUI. 38 |
