THE MYRIAPODA in the AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. PAKT I. — ClIILOPODA. By H. W. Brolemann, Pau, (Figs. 1-34). Thanks to the kindness of the Trustees of the Australian Museum, I have been permitted to examine the Myriapods exist-ing in the cabinets of the Museum, and for such favour I wish to express my sincerest thanks to whom it is due. The material submitted for examination is small, but would certainly assume an importance adequate to the rank of the branch amongst the Arthropoda, should attention be drawn to these highly interesting animals, and should some means of identifying the species be offered to lovers of Nature. A plain list of names and localities would not have answered the purpose; the diagnoses are distributed through many different periodicals and are difficult to obtain without considerable loss of time. It has, therefore, been considered a better plan to add to the observations furnished by the material of the Museum, full descriptions borrowed from the more recent authors and as complete synonymical indications as possible. Thus, students will have close at hand material for comparison as well as the necessary particulars for identification. May this attempt to win sympathies to the cause of the much disregarded Myriapods meet with some success. OHILOPODA ANAMORPHA. SCUTIGEROMORPHA. Genus Allotherelu, Verhoeft, 1905. Allothereua maculata (Neivport)) 1844. (Figs. 1-4), Cermatia maculata, Newport, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1844, xiii ; Trans. Linn. Soc, 1845, xix. Cermatia maculata, Newport and Gray, Cat. Myr. Brit. Mus., 1856. 3
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