38 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMAND.IARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 20: 3. 



Shape, broad oval. Texture finely wrinkled; both the dorsal shields, the 

 maxillse, the maxillary palps and the legs iiiore or less densely piinctured. 



The dorsal side has two shields anteriorly and bears 10 pairs of rather large hairs, 

 arranged symmetrically. The posterior shield is semicircular, with straight anterior 

 and rounded posterior side; it is provided with one pair of hairs behind the middle. 

 The anterior shield (PI. 2, fig. 18) is large and square; the posterior margin is slightly 

 convex, with a shallow excavation near the postero-lateral corners; the sides are con- 

 cave in the proximal half of the shield, which widens anteriorly and ends with broad, 

 nearly semicircular and slightly wavy anterior edge. The distal third projects as a free, 

 thin blade, separated from the rest of the shield by irregulär, anteriorly convex 

 lines, and is not punctured. The shield curves forwards and downwards and covers 

 nearly entirely the mouthparts ; it exhibits a pair of subcuticular nearly transversal 

 ridges a little behind the level of the anterior margin of the body. There are 3 

 pairs of bristles; one median, anterior pair of bare, pointed bristles, directed straight 

 forward and situated immediately in front of the punctured portion : the other two 

 pairs, of which the posterior one is the longest, are lateral, more blunt and feathcrd 

 and inserted, one at the postero-lateral angles, the other submarginally and halfway 

 between the posterior margin of the shield and the anterior margin of the body. 



Between the lateral bristles, but a little more inwards, the long, setiform pseu- 

 dostigmatic organs are situated. Two pairs of eyes, situated dose together on 

 a level with the middle of the concave portion of the lateral edge of the anterior 

 shield. The pseudocapitulum is, as above stated, nearly hidden beneath the anterior 

 shield. The maxillary palps are short, 5-jointed. The first Joint very short; the 

 2nd, 3rd and 4*'' joints gradually decreasing in length and width ; the 2"<^ Joint with a short 

 pectinate hair dorsally and exteriorly ; the S'''^ Joint with one similar more interiorly ; 

 the 4th Joint externally with a transverse row of 3 bare bristles. The 5*^ joint very 

 small, with 4 — 5 fine, radiating hairs. The claws of the 5*'' Joint are curved strongly 

 inwards and downwards. The hypostome. The coxge are fused to form a ventrally 

 finely punctured plate; the distal Vs does not widen at the tip like a sucker-plate, 

 but forms a thin semitube, open at the upper side and with hyalin edges, which 

 Surround the mandibles. The anterior edge of the tube is divided into one narrow, 

 median, ventral slip and two pairs of nearly vertical, rounded lobes, the A'entral one 

 of which is twice as broad as the dorsal one. The mandibles of the usual shape, 

 not punctured, with strong, pointed claws of equal size. 



Ventral side. 



Coxee I and II are fused together; cox£e I anteriorly and distally with one 

 long feathered bristle, directed backwards; coxa II with one similar. 



The legs are short and finely punctured, femur I indistinctly divided into 

 basi- and telofemur ; 3 claws, of which the median one is long and slender. 



Jlfem-mountain, in the rain-forest, 3,000^3,500 M., 8. X., 1 specimen. 



