52 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MKRU EXPEDITION. 20: 3. 



tennophorinee*, but cannot answer to tlie same purpose as in those forms i. e. »to act, 

 togetiier witli the thin plates along the edges of the maxillary plates, as a sheet to 

 the mandibles with their fringes and collect as in a pipe the liquid wliich the man- 

 dibles have absorbed with their brushes» (1. c. p. 25). Because in the present species 

 it is a secondary sexual char acter which occurs only in the male. The maxillary 

 plates are narrow, lanceolate and finely fringed slips, fused with 'their proximal half. 



The legs are long and well depeloved, with distinctly demarcated basifemora 

 and basitarsi. Legs I more slender tlian the others, with smaller claws and caruncles. 

 Coxa and trochanter of the same length; the former flat and curved, with two hairs 

 ventrally and one very short, stout thorn on the dorsal side, at the interior anterior 

 margin. The trochanter ventrally with two hairs, one of which is perpendicular while the 

 other is directed forward ; dorsally with one, interiorly one, and externally one hair. Basi- 

 femur short, neckshaped. Femur (without basifemur), genu and tibia of nearly equal 

 length, provided with numerous, long, straight and pointed hairs. Tarsus provided 

 with a dense bündle of hairs at the top on the dorsal side. 



Legs II (PI. 2, fig. 27.) very large and powerful; femur with long, stout calcar 

 femoralis, the posterior edge of which is even while the anterior edge is provided 

 with three short teeth, increasing in size backwards. No processus axillaris, only 

 a Sharp bristle inserted on a small tubercle; processus genualis and tibialis low 

 and thick, of the same liatchet-shape and with the margin excavated in the middle, 

 but the Processus genualis is a little larger; both are half as long as the ventral 

 edge of the resp. joints. One perpendicular hair is situated near the bind margin 

 at the exterior side of processus genualis, another immediately at the back of pro- 

 cessus tibialis. Legs III and IV. All the joints of legs IV are more elongate than 

 in legs III, especially the trochanter and the tarsus. 



The ambulacres with comparatively small claws and large empodium. 



The feniale. 



The shape is the for the genus typical one. Colour, texture and dorsal 

 shield like that of the male. 



Ventral side (PL 3, fig. 9). 



Tritosternum shaped like that of the male. Sternal, endopodal and meta- 

 podal shields fused together. Sternal shield with concave anterior margin, extends back- 

 wards as f ar as to the anterior margin of coxfe IV, with deeply excavated posterior margin. 



The usual 4 pairs of hairs present, long straight and pointed. They are placed 

 as follows: one on the anterior edge, as far from the antero-lateral angles as from 

 the middle, one near the posterior side of coxa II, one near the anterior side of 

 coxa III and the 4^^ in the corner between coxa III and IV. 



Genital shield fused with the ventral shield, small, rounded; the portion 

 at the back of coxa IV nearly circular and its diameter only slightly longer than the 

 distance to the anal shield. No hairs in the middle, only two pairs of long, lateral 



' I. TräoIedh. Dcscription of two iiiyriopoilopliilous geiiera of Anteimophorinse. Arkiv f. Zoologi. Bd. 

 3. No. 28 1907. 



