56 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMANDJAKO-MERU EXPEDITION. 20: 3. 



tibia I are short, perpendicular or even directed backward. Tarsus I dorsally, behind 

 the middle, with one fine, long and perpendicular hair. 



The other hairs of tarsus I also fine and slender. At the top, dorsally, there 

 is a dense bündle of fine, more or less adpressed hairs, two pairs of which are longer 

 and inserted on low tubercles; surrounded and protected by the hairs there is a 

 small area provided with short, conical and apparently very thin-walled pins. Femur 

 II provided dorsally and distally with a bristle similar to that of feniur I but shorter, 

 ventrally and proximally with another, directed backward. Tarsus II provided with 

 nunierous, very stout bristles. 



Claws strong, those of the p' pair of legs shorter than the others. As the 

 ambulacres of the specimens I have examined are not spread out, I am unable to 

 describe the shape of the caruncles. 



Female. 



Colour much more dark brown than in the male. Texture of the dorsal 

 shield scaly. 



Dorsal shield (PI. 3, fig. 12). The curved lines flanking the pores of the 

 hairs are more distinctly discernible than the others. The cuticle of the anterior 

 part of the shield is extremely finely punctured by pin-prick like markings. There 

 are several thin, oval or rounded areas penetrated by hiunerous pores. Two pairs 

 are placed near the posterior margin in the middle. Four pairs, two and two more 

 close together, are to be found near the sides, somewhat behind the middle, and 

 several small and less distinct ones further forward. 



The dorsal shield itself exhibits in the anterior half several symmetrically ar- 

 ranged dark-coloured thickenings of the inner surface of the cuticle, which produce 

 a very characteristic pattern. From the anterior, thickened edge, half-way between 

 the top and the Shoulders above the first pair of legs two broad ridges run back- 

 ward converging until they coalesce by a broad and short transverse ridge, thus sur- 

 rounding an median oval, thin and light-coloured area; from the junction they run 

 straight backwards until they coalesce again for a considerable distance, thus forming 

 an second median, narrow oval, light-coloured area, behind which they unite and pro- 

 ject into a median point which vanishes backwards. Behind the first junction and 

 on a level with the second one they brauche off into two lateral transversal ridges 

 which widen and vanish distally. 



The ventral side (PL 3, fig. 1). 



Tritosternum. The trunk short, the lateral edges strongly chitinous and 

 thickened on the dorsal side; the slips coalesce with their proximal V4, which are nearly 

 twice as long as the trunk. 



The sternal shield very thick, dark-brown. The anterior edge square, with 

 a narroAV, soft and finely wrinkled portion in front of the first pairs of sternal 

 bristles (jugular shield?); the antero-lateral angies are very long and strongly chiti- 

 nous, the lateral edges are very thin blades; the shield extends backward to the 

 middle of coxse III; the posterior margin is nearly straight in the middle, with a 



