Abstracts of Volume 19 Number 4, 2008

Ma, H.-Q., Song, D.-X. & Zhu, M.-S. 2008: Two new species of the genus Bothropolys Wood, 1862 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) from China. - Entomol. Fennica 19: 248-256.

The present paper deals with two new species of the genus Bothropolys Wood, 1862 (Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae), recently discovered in China. Bothropolys stoevi sp. n. was found in Hebei and Shanxi Provinces, and Bothropolys edgecombei sp. n.was found in Sichuan Province.We present a key and distributional map of the Chinese Bothropolys species.