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SYNOPSIS OF NORTH AMERICAN MYRIAPODA.
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M. melanonotus. Light orange, with two broad, irregular, blackish bands, from the head to the penultimate segment, involving nearly the whole dorsum. Pairs of feet about 50.


Gen. Geophilus.

Cephalic segment subquadrate. Prebasal segment coalesced with the basal. Posterior margin of the basal segment much longer than anterior.

G. cephalicus. Anterior portion of the body obscurely orange; the posterior olivaceous. Feet 48 pairs.
Var. ? — Feet 51 pairs.
G. lævis. Orange; with a double, blackish, anteriorly obsolete, dorsal line, terminating rather abruptly at the penultimate segment. Feet 53 pairs.
G. brevicornis. Deep orange. Cephalic segment small, sparsely subprofoundly punctate. Antennae rather short. Pairs of feet 55.
G. bipuncticeps. Orange. Cephalic segment large, copiously profoundly punctate. Antennae. rather long. Feet 61 — 63 pairs.


Gen. Strigamia.

Cephalic segment small, generally subtriangular, narrowed anteriorly. Body anteriorly attenuate.

Coxæ of last pair of legs impressed with little pits.

S. bothriopus. Bright red. Pairs of feet 50.
S. Walkeri. Orange. Pairs of feet 64.
S. bidens. Orange. Pairs of feet 76.

Coxæ of last pairs of feet not pitted.

S. fulva. Pairs of feet 47. Cephalic segment subtriangular.
S. chionophila. Pairs of feet 43. Cephalic segment subquadrate, medianly canaliculate.
S. lævipes. Pairs of feet 69. Head rather large.
S. parviceps. Pairs of feet 71. Head small, impunctate.
S. cephalica. Pairs of feet 75. Head large, impunctate.
S. maculaticeps. Pairs of feet 77. Head obscurely red and minutely maculate with white, rather small.
S. laticeps. Pairs of feet 81. Head large, impunctate. Length, 3 inches.
S. epileptica. Pairs of feet 81. Head rather small, minutely maculate with white. Length, 5½ inches.

S. tæniopsis. Pairs of feet 141.