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reddish-brown distally ; first leg yellow, not infuscate, the rest yellowish-red ; ocular tubercle with only two 

 principal bristles, without subordinate bristles. Mandible with upper fang normally toothed, its upperside 

 with a deep, obtusely angular notch at its base. Palp with patella armed below with a row of eight 

 spines; tibia also armed below with a row (? two rows) of seven or eight short spines, both these 

 segments beset above and below with cylindrical hairs, the femur bearing cylindrical and other hairs 

 below and short forwardly directed bristles above. Fourth leg with cylindrical hairs on the upperside 

 of the patella and tibia. 





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Length of trunk 12 mm. 







Hal. Lower California, San Jose del Cabo l . — Mexico, Hermosillo in Sonora l . 



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species is unknown to me 



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4. Aminotreclia limbata. 



des limbatus* Lucas. Mas*. Zool. i 







(1844) 



(1879) 



Ammotrecha limbata, Kraepelin, Das Tierr., Palpigradi et Solifugae, p. 112 (1901) 4 . 

 ?Cleobis saltatrix, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 146, t. 3. figg. 32-36 (1879) 



















Ammotrecha saltatrix, Kraepelin, Das Tierr., Palpigradi et Solifugse, p. 113 (1901) 6 . 



<$ . Colour : head-shield yellowish-brown, mandibles yellow ; upperside of abdomen with a wide black median 

 band embracing the entire terga, the median line sometimes less thickly pigmented than the sides ; lateral 

 and ventral surfaces of the abdomen yellow ; palpi brown almost throughout, the tarsi and the base of the 

 femur somewhat paler ; legs tinted like the femur ; ocular tubercle black, without pale median stripe. 

 Ocular tubercle furnished in front with numerous short bristles. Mandibles normally toothed. Flagellum 

 flask-shaped, distally pointed, its edges bent over so as almost to meet, separated only by a narrow slit. 

 Palp with its tibia, armed below with four spines (? pairs of spines), and furnished with cylindrical 

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spines below. 

 Length of trunk up to 17 mm. 



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This soecies. which is unkn 



me, seems 



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differ from A. picta in the indis- 



al abdomina 



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ven description is abridged from Kraepelin's monograph. 



A. saltatrix was regarded by Simon as a valid species on the strength of the alleged 



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smaller size of the flagellum in the male, and of the equality in size of the thr 

 teeth of the upper mandibular finger. According to Kraepelin, however, these c) 

 are not sufficiently marked in the type-specimen to justify the view that A. sal 



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