. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 39. Figs. 39-41- Lithobius birmanicus. Fig. 39. Ocelli. Fig. 40. Dental margin of prosternum, ventral. Fig. 41. Left $ gonopod, ventral. Remarks. Attems (1914) and Larwood (1949) seem to have accepted the genus Archilithobius in Stuxberg's (1875) original sense (see p. 65) but L. birmanicus would not be included in Archilithobius as later emended by either Attems (1926) or Chamberlin (1952). Australobius, on the other hand, was erected by Chamberhn (1920b) to receive an Austrahan species {A. scabrior Chamberlin, probably intro- duced to Austr
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 39. Figs. 39-41- Lithobius birmanicus. Fig. 39. Ocelli. Fig. 40. Dental margin of prosternum, ventral. Fig. 41. Left $ gonopod, ventral. Remarks. Attems (1914) and Larwood (1949) seem to have accepted the genus Archilithobius in Stuxberg's (1875) original sense (see p. 65) but L. birmanicus would not be included in Archilithobius as later emended by either Attems (1926) or Chamberlin (1952). Australobius, on the other hand, was erected by Chamberhn (1920b) to receive an Austrahan species {A. scabrior Chamberlin, probably intro- duced to Austraha from the East Indies) and is characterized by antennae of only about 20 articles, relatively few large ocelli arranged in a compact mass, 3 + 3 or more prosternal teeth, frequent absence of the prosternal lateral spine and usually three or more spurs on the female gonopod. L. birmanicus and the next four species all seem to belong to Australobius which is distributed chiefly in India and south-east Asia. Pocock described the 15th leg of birmanicus with only a single ventral spine each on the trochanter, prefemur and femur, but this reduced spinulation of the 15th leg is hardly credible when associated with the profuse ventral spinulation found on the 14th leg of the lectotype, and Pocock's description was probably based on an. 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 British Museum (Natural History). London : BM(NH)
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