M. limatus, Wood, Journ. A. N. S., new series, vol. v, 1863, p. 42.
The alcohol in which the specimens were preserved having evaporated, they are in such a condition that I can only guess at the original color of the body and feet. The scuto-episcutal sutures are very distinct, as well as the subsegmental sutures of each fully-formed segment. The sterna are furnished with a median sulcus, deeply marked on the posterior, but obsolescent on the anterior portion of most of them. Length, 2¼ inches.
Hab. California.—Smithsonian Collection.
Genus GEOPHILUS, Leach.[1]
Segmentum cephalicum subquadratum. Segmentum prebasale haud sejuncturn, sed basali absolute coalitum, Segmenti basalis margo posticus antico multo longior. Segmentum subbasale sejuncturn. Mandibulæ modicæ, interdum denticulatæ. Antennæ capite multo longiores, subapproximatæ, articulis inæqualibus. Labium plerumque emarginatum. (Fig. 19.)
Fig. 19
Cephalic segment subquadrate. Prebasal segment not separate, but entirely coalescent with the basal. Posterior
margin of the basal segment much longer than the anterior. Subbasal segment separate. Mandibles moderate, sometimes denticulate. Antennæ much longer than the head subapproximate, their
joints unequal. Labium generally emarginate.
Geophilus longicornes, Gervaisj Apt. iv, p. 313.
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Since Geophilus carpophagus is the type of the original genus as instituted by Dr. Leach, the name Geophilus must be used for this section, to which G. carpophagus belongs, and not for that to which Mr. Newport applies it. Mr. Gervais does not adopt any of these genera, much to my surprise, for they appear to me as clearly and even beautifully defined as almost any that I have ever seen.
G. cephalicus.
G. antice obscure aurantiacus, postice saturate olivaceus; capite magno, latissimo, saturate aurantiaco; segmento cephalico antice haud emarginato, sparse inordinatim punctato, marginibus lateralibus arcuatis; antennis modice longis, valde pilosis; labio sparse inordinatim punctato, medio canaliculato, antice emarginato; pedibus longis, flavescentibus, pilosis, utrinque 48; suturis scuto-episcutalibus conspicuis; superficie ventrali, antice aurantiaca, postice saturate olivacea; sternis suturis sterno-episternalibus et depressione mediana impressis.
Anteriorly obscure orange, posteriorly deep olive; head large, very broad, deep orange; cephalic segment
- ↑ Linn. Trans., vol. xi, p. 384.
