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Transactions. 



With the exception of a few small spines on the eye-tubercle and in 

 front of same, the whole carapace is quite smooth. 



The mandibles are thickly covered with spicules and tubercles. They 

 are thin, but widening out slightly at the anterior end of each joint. The 

 fingers are long and thin. The fixed joint has two large teeth, and a row 

 of smaller reaching nearly to the anterior end. On the movable joint 

 is one large tooth near the middle and a few serrations reaching to 

 the anterior end. The patellar joint of the palp is shorter than the 

 tibial, and has a lateral process at the anterior end. 



The legs have no spicules on the trochanter, but short strong spicules 

 on the femoral joint, and a few weaker spicules on the patella. 



I am unable to distinguish the sex without damaging the single specimen. 



The measurements in milhmetres are as follows : — 



Length. Breadth. 



Genus Pantopsalis, E. Simon. 



Pantopsalis, E. Simon, Comptes Kendus de la Soc, Ent. de Belgique, 

 Mai, 1879, p. 16 ; W. Sorensen, Axach. Austr., Zweiter Theil, 1886, 

 p. 56 ; Dr. J. C. C. Loman, Zool. Jahrb., Band xxi, 1902 ; E. I. 

 Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc, Dec. 2, 1902, p. 392, and Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., ser. 7, vol. xi. May, 1903, p. 436. 



Pantopsalis trippi, Pocock. 



I have compared this single specimen with Mr. Pocock's type specimen 



(in the British Museum Nat. Hist. 

 Dept.) from Timaru, and it is cer- 

 tainly the same ; the only difference 

 being that in this there are short fine 

 bristles on the eye-tubercle and in 

 front of same, in his they are more 

 definite spicules. 



The coxa, femur, patella, and tibia 

 of the palp are orange, the long 

 metatarsal joint being nearly white. 

 The patella and tibia of same are 

 of equal length. The anterior end 

 of the patella has a sort of pad, 

 covered with short bristles, instead of 

 the process in the genus Macropsalis 

 above detailed from the same locaUty, 



and the fingers are shorter, with one large tooth about the middle. 



Fig. 4. — Pantopsalis trippi. 



a. Mandibular finger, b. End of 



tibial joint of palp. 



