. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Natural history. ON THE MYRIOPODA OF BURMA 429 Maxillary sternite very short, mesially depressed, without chi- tinous lines; unarmed; claw long, lightly curved or blade-like. Anal legs short, terminated by a claw. Pleurae porous. Sternites with porous areas. Spiracula sclerites in contact with the tergites and much' smaller than the large prescutellar sclerites. This genus, which is established for the reception of the fol- lowing two species and for H. striatum, (x) from Madras — a species which I provisionally referred to Himantarium —
. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Natural history. ON THE MYRIOPODA OF BURMA 429 Maxillary sternite very short, mesially depressed, without chi- tinous lines; unarmed; claw long, lightly curved or blade-like. Anal legs short, terminated by a claw. Pleurae porous. Sternites with porous areas. Spiracula sclerites in contact with the tergites and much' smaller than the large prescutellar sclerites. This genus, which is established for the reception of the fol- lowing two species and for H. striatum, (x) from Madras — a species which I provisionally referred to Himantarium — may be recognised from Himantarium by its very short basal plate, short and mesially depressed maxillary sternite, powerful maxillary claw, incrassate and not attenuate antennae, clawed anal legs etc. H. tyipicum may be taken as the type of the genus. 31. Himantosoma typicixni, sp. n. Syn. Himantarium indicum, Pocock, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. XXI, p. 289 pi. XXIV, fig. 3. Not H. indicum, Meinert, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc XXIII, p. 228. Body robust, attenuate toward its anterior and posterior end. Colour ochraceous above, testaceous beneath, the anterior tergites slightly infoscate. Head fiate sub-quadrate, punctured and hairy. Antennae thick and hairy, incrassate towards the middle of their length, the apical segment ovate aud longer than the segment that precedes it. Claws (fig.) of the maxillary feet projecting in front beyond the margin of the head-plate, lightly -, i i i i ti ,ii • ,1 , Himantosoma curved and blade like ; the depression on the ster- typtcum. nite wide in front and narrowed behind. Tergites smooth and shining, those in the middle of the body lightly bisulcate and obsoletely wrinkled between the sulci. Sternites not sulcate, mesially depressed and furnished in the (') Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) V, p. 248, pi. XII, fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration an
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