. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Myriopoda of South Africa. 131 bristles ; the rest of the body very sparsely pubescent, nearly hairless. The sternites and pleurites of the first 26 or 27 segments are polygon- ally reticulated in a very remarkable manner and look as if tessellate. The reticulation of the following somites becomes gradually less marked. Anterior margins of the sternites bluntly angular, the an- terior prominences weakly hollowed out and the meshes of the reticula- tion fewer. On each side of the sternite two long
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Myriopoda of South Africa. 131 bristles ; the rest of the body very sparsely pubescent, nearly hairless. The sternites and pleurites of the first 26 or 27 segments are polygon- ally reticulated in a very remarkable manner and look as if tessellate. The reticulation of the following somites becomes gradually less marked. Anterior margins of the sternites bluntly angular, the an- terior prominences weakly hollowed out and the meshes of the reticula- tion fewer. On each side of the sternite two long bristles, the rest of the surface with dispersed short hairs. The porose area, from the second to the penultimate pedal segment, cir- cular or transversely oval in the posterior half of the sternite. The intercalar sternites are divided medi- ally in the anterior third of the body. Further back they are undivided. Sternite of the last pedal segment (fig. 458) very broad, with a deep incision behind. The posterior half densely pubescent, the same pube-. Text-fig. 37.—Mesoschendyla caledonica Att. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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