The myriapod types of Oscar Harger (Arthropoda: Diplopoda, Chilopoda)

The type specimens of all five milliped species-Trichopetalum lunatum, T. glomeratum, T. iuloides, Iulus furcifer, and Polydesmus armatus-and one of the two centipedes, Lithobius pinetorum, authored by Oscar Harger in his only paper on myriapods and previously thought to be lost, are housed at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. From our knowledge of the itinerary of the Yale paleontological expedition of 1871, we know the type locality of T. glomeratum, I. furcifer, P. armatus, and L. pinetorum, previously stated s the "John Day River Valley, Oregon (USA:" is restricted to the vicinity of Canyon City, Grand County, on the western slope of the Blue Mountains. The female holotype confirms that T. glomeratum is a representative of the chordeumatoid family. Conotvlidae, and the name is assigned provisionally to Taiyutyla pending collection of a male topotype. Unidentifiable female conotylids are also reported from another area in eastern Oregon and the Snake Mountains in eastern Nevada, which suggests that the family is widespread in montane forests at high elevations in the generally arid Columbia Plateau and Basin and Range Physiographic Provinces. To facilitate future studies, I provide gonopod drawings of male syntypes for I. furcifer and P. armatus.