See Whitman, Journal of Morphology, vol. i.
There are now, I am told by Professor Jeffrey Bell, specimens from Natal (I believe undescribed) at the British Museum with twenty-three and twenty-four pairs of legs.
This name was first applied by Blanchard to a species from Cayenne. The description, however, is very imperfect, and it is by no means clear that the Cayenne species is identical with the species here named Edwardsii.
The existence of this species is very doubtful. The description of it was taken from a single specimen. The evidence that this specimen was actually found in Sumatra is not conclusive.
Not to be confused with the larva of Elater lineatus, also known as "wire-worm."