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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
Almost all of the members of the subfamily Ethopolyinae occur in western North America, a few Pacific islands, the Orient and Europe, but only one established species had been known from North America east of the Rocky Mountains. This widespread and very common form, Bothropolys multidentatus (Newport), ranges throughout the East as far west as Missouri. The present new species is therefore of special interest in that it is the second endemic member of the subfamily to he recorded from east of the Rockies. The only other members of Zygethopolys, a genus closely allied to Bothropolys, are known only from Alaska, British Columbia, and thk state of Washington.
1 The family Lithobiidae is considered here to be divisible into two subfamilies, Lithobiinae and Ethopolyinae, the latter of which is equal to Ethopolidae Ghamberlin, and to Attems' tribe Polybothrini.
2 Known only from New Orleans, Louisiana where it was intercepted at quarantine, Bothropolys epelus Chamberlin, (Pan. Pac. Ent., VII, p. 190, 1931)Google Scholar is not believed to have established itself in this country.
3 Porodont—a term coined by Verhoeff to describe the stout seta that flanks the prosternai teeth.
4 Plectrotaxy (Πλήκτρον —calcar—spur), the arrangement and nomenclature of the pedal spurs of Lithobiid centipedes. The system employed here is discussed in Faune de France, XXV, (1930).
