ABSTRACT: Centipedes collected during Royal Society surveys of the arthropod fauna of the Aldabra Atoll in 1968-1975 are identified, described, and illustrated to provide the first checklist to the Aldabran centipede fauna, comprising 12 species. These newly include the lithobiomorph Lamyctestristani (Pocock, 1893), the scolopendromorphs ScolopendramorsitansLinnaeus 1758, Cryptopscf.japonicus Takakuwa, 1934, Cryptopsmauritianus Verhoeff, 1939, and Cryptopsnigropictus Takakuwa, 1936, and the geophilomorphs Ityphiluscf.taeniaformis (Lawrence, 1960), Mecistocephalusangusticeps (Ribaut, 1914), Mecistocephaluslohmanderi Verhoeff, 1939, Orphnaeusdekanius Verhoeff, 1938, Ribautiacf.paucipes Attems, 1952, and Tuobasydneyensis (Pocock, 1891). The geophi
