50 SJÖSTEDTS KILTMANDJARO-MEBÜ EXPEDITION. 20: 3. 



Paralaplaps kibouoteiisis n. sp. 



(PI. 2, figs. 26, 27, 30 & 31. PI. 3. figs. 7, 9. 24 & 25.) 



Male. Average length l,i7 mm. Greatest widtli 0,72. 



Female. 1,08 mm. » » » 0,6. 



The male. 



Colour light brown. Texture smootli, tlie strips of weak skin snrrounding 

 the dorsal shield finely wrinliled. The shape is the for the genus typical oiie, 

 with broad Shoulders distinctly set off and from thence narrowing, with convex sides, 

 towards the round posterior end. 



The dorsal side is covered by one shield, which bears long, straight and pointed 

 hairs, which are scarcely clothed with exceedingly minute hairs, and increase in length 

 towards the Shoulders and the front end, where there are resp. 4 and 3 pairs of long 

 hairs; of the latter one pair, situated in the middle, is directed straight forward. 



The strips of weak skin surrounding the dorsal shield bear numerous hairs, 

 uniform with those of the shield. 



Ventral side. (PL 2, fig. 30.) 



Tritosternum. The trunk is not quite three times as long as it is broad 

 and tapers slightly towards the anterior end. The slips coalesee with their basis and 

 are SVs time as long as the trunk and very narrow, with thin fringes. 



The sternal, metasternal, ventral, anal, endopal, metapodal, parapodal 

 and peritrematic shields are fused together to a singie shield, which covers the whole 

 belly except for a strip of soft skin round along the margin, which widens consi- 

 derably at the back of legs IV, so that the ventri-anal portion of the shield covers 

 only a little more than the median half of the space behind legs IV. The sternal 

 portion has numerous, transverse and backwardly curved lines, which give to it the 

 appearance of being scaly. The anterior margin of it is thickened, ridge-like, con- 

 cave and excavated in the middle, where the slightly projecting genital aperture 

 is situated. There are 5 pairs of straight, pointed hairs on the sternal portion : one 

 pair on both sides of and close to the genital-aperture; the other four are inserted 

 on the very lateral thickened edges of the shield, one pair behind the middle of 

 coxa II, one in front of the middle of coxa III, one in the angle between coxa III 

 and IV and one near the hind margin of coxa IV. The ventri-anal portion of the 

 shield is triangulär, with wavy, anteriorly concave sides and a median posterior 

 projection. It bears about 15 pairs of hairs, chiefly inserted in the lateral and 

 posterior parts of it; one smaller hair on each side of and one behind the anus. The 

 anus is small, situated close to the posterior margin. The stigma is situated on 

 a level with a line drawn between coxa III and IV and its diameter is only a little 

 longer than the broad peritrema, which winds along close to the outer side of the 

 foveolse pedales as far forwards as a little beyond the Shoulders. The peritrematic 

 shields are very narrow, only half as broad as the peritremata, and only discernible 

 on the exterior side of the peritremata and at the back of the stigma. 



Theepistoma (PL 3, fig. 25 a.) is comparatively shorter and broader than in 



