On the myriapods collected during the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by F.G. Sinclair (formerly F.G. Heathcote).

  • F. G. Heathcote
Date:
1901
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Credit: On the myriapods collected during the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by F.G. Sinclair (formerly F.G. Heathcote). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    by Attems under the name nodulosum. There are, however, some important differences in the Malay specimens. Colour and shape as in Attems’s description. The farrow between the pro- and metazonites, which Attems describes as “ deutlich geperlt,” shows no signs of any pearls or tubercles even under a high power. Neither can I identify the “ kleine kurze Wiilste” on the pore-bearing segments, though there are certain pores or marks in the chitinous integument which may possibly represent them. Neither can I find any sign of the cross-shaped impression in the ventral plate. The sub-anal plate has two setiferous tubercles in the same place as in Platyrhacidse and. the two pairs of setiferous tubercles at the sides of the anal valves. The copulatory foot is shown in the figure. StrongYLOSOMA (Orthomoepha) fuscocollaris Pocock. (Plate XXX. fig. 23, and Plate XXXII. fig. 81.) Prom Gunong Inas, Perak State. Male. This specimen is, I think, identical with that from Tenasserim described by Pocock. The colour is, however, slightly different. The last joint of the antennsB is dark brown ; the head, antenna), and first tergite yellow-brown ; extreme edge of first tergite pale. On each somite just above the keel there is a cluster of small pale spots. The rest o£ Pocock’s description applies. Strongylosoma bipunctatfm, sp. nov. (Plate XXX. fig. 16, Plate XXXI. figs. 43, 61, and Plate XXXII. figs. 90, 95.) From Gunong Inas, Perak State, and Kuala Aring, Kelantan State. Length 52 mm., width 6 mm. Colour of head dark brown, shading into yellow on the upper lip; under part of head yellow; a patch of yellow just behind each antenna. Antennsc yellow, with the distal parts of the joints shading into brown ; last joint dark brown. Is^ somite dark chocolate-brown, ends of keels and posterior margin of tergite yellow ; ventral parts yellow. 2nd somite same, but with brown patch on lower ventral part of keel. Two pale spots on the prozonite. The 3rcZ ^ 4:th somites resemble the 2nd. On the 5th the pale posterior margin is wanting, the chocolate-brown extending to the edge. On the cylindrical prozonite there are two large pale spots separated by a dark line. These spots are shaped like the half of an oval and extend from the anterior margin of the pro- zonite for about two-thirds of its length; they are visible up to the 18th somite. The tail is pale at the posterior end, while at the anterior it shows a pale band divided by a median longitudinal dark stripe. At the sides of the anterior end it is chocolate. The ventral surface of the tail is pale and the anal valves chocolate. The body tapers anteriorly and posteriorly. Head. Upper lip with a semicircular indentation, edged with [15]
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