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catam divisa. Pedes longissimi, setigeri, secundo et quarto pari ceteris longioribus. Palpi elongati, apice 
tridentato, obtuso ; articulo quarto longo, cylindrico, cum dente longo valido, crasso in medio, armato. 
Lamine genitales disjuncte, late, arcuate; stigmatibus senis, in binos acervos trinorum stigmatum 
segregatis instructe. 
Long. corp. 0°75 millim.; long. pedum 1°5 millim. 
Hab. GUATEMALA, near the city (Sto//). 
Body ovoid, almost globoid, a little depressed, transparent, brownish-white, with two 
setigerous tubercles at its posterior end and (in the male) two small tufts of hairs at the 
end of the genital fissure; dorsal patch black; dorsal gland Y-shaped, brown, with 
white margins, dividing the dorsal patch into an anterior triangular, and two long, 
broad, lateral spots. Legs very long and slender, the second and fourth pairs longer 
than the first and third, all bearing numerous long hairs and rows of short spines. 
Palpi very long; fourth joint cylindrical, bearing on the middle of its inner surface a 
strong, obliquely inserted tooth which points forward; fifth joint long, slightly arcuate, 
with an obtuse tridentate apex. Genital plates situated near the abdominal margin, 
arcuate; each bearing six large stigmata, which are divided into two equal groups. 
The epimera of the third and fourth pairs of legs form an almost quadrate plate. 
Lives in stagnant ponds in the vicinity of the city of Guatemala. 
NES ZEA *. 
Nesea (C. L. Koch), Neuman, Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl. xvii. no. 3, p. 29. 
1. Neswa guatemalensis, sp. n. (Tab. X. figg. 2-2 6,9; and Tab. XI. 
figg. 1-1 f, 3.) 
2. Corpus ovatum, convexum, pellucidum, albido-flavescens ; macula dorsuali fusco-nigrescente, per glandulam 
dorsualem angustam, antice bipartitam, luteolam in quinque maculas disjuncta: tres anteriores minores, 
breves, duas posteriores majores, margine exteriore arcuatas. Pedes mediocris longitudinis, a primo pari 
gradatim longitudine crescentes, unguiculis valde recurvis; pedum articuli quarti atque quinti fasciculis 
setarum in seriem obliquam dispositarum ad apicem instructi; pedes posteriores spinarum serie brevium 
subtus armati. Palporum articulus secundus crassus, quartus dente armatus. Oculi duo magni, conici, 
divergentes. Area genitalis stigmatibus numerosis, circa 18 magnis atque 8 parvis instructa, que aream 
semilunarem in utroque latere fissure genitalis occupant. 
Long. 0°75 millim. 
3. Corpus ovatum, altum, antice obsolete truncatum ; macula dorsuali fusco-nigrescente in dorsi dimidio 
posteriore sita, breviore quam in femina. Mandibule versus apicem serrulate. Pedum unguicule valde 
recurve, basi incrassate inserte ; pedum quartorum articulus quartus in medio excavatus, seriebus duabus 
dentium oblique oppositis in marginibus excavationis armatus. Are genitalis stigmata diffuse disposita, 
circiter viginti. 
Long. 0°5 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, near the city (Stol/). 
@. Body ovoid, convex, whitish-yellow, transparent ; dorsal patch brownish-black ; 
dorsal gland narrow, yellowish, anteriorly bifurcate, and dividing the dorsal patch into 
* This genus requires a new name; it is preoccupied in Polypi (Lamouroux, 1812) and Mollusca (Risso, 
1826). 
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