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than the upper, with 3 strong teeth near the middle, the intermediate 

 rather large but smaller than the other two. 



FIG. 8. Lipophaga trispinosa, n. sp., right chelicera of ad. 3 from outer side. 



Pedipalps (like the legs) densely covered with minute cylindrical 

 bristles ; under side of tarsus and metatarsus with numerous, mode- 

 rately long, truncated, cylindrical bristles ; tibia with scarcely any of 

 the longer cylinder-bristles below, but with 3 powerful spines in the 

 distal half along the inner inferior margin, in addition to a few 

 smaller slender spines ; femur with several inner spines. 



Abdomen. Genital sclerites forming a long spindle-shaped area 

 and considerably exceeding half the sternite in length. 



5 . The infuscate reticulation on the chelicerae andhead-plate very 

 distinct and sharply defined. Head-plate and limbs without the dense 

 coat of minute cylinder-bristles ; the spines on the former replaced by 

 long spiniform setae (except on the ocular tubercle). Chelicerce also 

 with the stout spines replaced by spiniform setae and slender spines, 

 somewhat larger than in the J , the upper finger strongly curved 

 downwards at the apex, the dentition as in the $ ; lower finger not 

 longer than the upper. Pedipalps with fewer cylinder-bristles on the 

 under side of the metatarsus and tarsus, the spines on the tibia and 

 femur replaced by much slenderer, long setae. Genital sternite with 

 the posterior median cleft very deep, extending through more than 

 half the length of the sternite, the inner hind angles rounded off. 



The young resemble the female (except in the genital sternite). 



Measurements. Total length of $ $ 154 mm., 5 20^ ; length of 

 head-plate in a 3 3, 2 3, of pedipalp (exclusive of coxa) in $ 

 2 10*. 



