I8OPODS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



239 



The abdomen is deeply set in the thorax. The first segment has 

 the sides covered by the last thoracic segment. The four following 



FIG. 243. MEINEHTIA GAUDICHAVDII (AFTER SCHICEDTE AND MEINERT). a, YOUNG OF FIRST STAGE. 

 6, SECOND LEG OF ADULT MALE, c, LATERAL VIEW OF THORAX OF ADULT MALE, d, ADULT MALE. 



(ENLARGED.) 



segments are as wide as the seventh thoracic segment or wider. The 

 sixth or terminal segment is trapezoidal, almost twice as wide as 



FIG. 244. MEINERTIA GAUDICHAUDII. a, SECOND MAXILLA. 



C, LEG OF SEVENTH PAIR. 



b, PALP OF MANDIBLE, x 33. 



long, 7 mm : 13 mm. The post-lateral angles are rounded and the 

 posterior margin straight. The uropoda are a little longer than the 

 terminal abdominal segment. The inner branch is slightly longer 

 than the outer branch. Both are 

 narrow, elongate, and produced 

 to acute and tapering extremities. 

 The legs are all prehensile, and 

 terminate in short, stout dactyli. 

 There is a high carina on the 

 basis of the last four pairs of legs, 



thp farina inprpjmino- in hpicrht FlG ' 245 -- MEIXERT1A AUDICHAUDII (AFTER 



Teasing 1 teigm SCHKEDTE AND MEINERT). a, SECOND LEG OF 



from the fourth to the seventh ADULT FEMALE. 6, SEVENTH LEG OF ADULT FE- 



i ... i i i MALE. (ENLARGED.) 



pair, where it is extremely high/' 



a For description of male, female, and young of the first stage, see Schioedte and 

 Meinert, Nat. Tidsskr., (3), XIII, 1881-1883, pp. 335-340. 



