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Legs.— The ibrccoxa on tlio outer surface bears about eight bristles, of which 

 four stand on the hinder edge. The hindcoxa is very short, being only as long 

 at the meral suture as it is broad. Along its anterior edge there is a row of 

 fine hairs. There are no bristles posteriorly at the apex of the hindcoxa, nr very 

 seldom there is a single one. The hairs at the upper edge of the femora are 

 rather long. There is one single subapical bristle on the outerside, while on the 

 inuerside of the mid- and hiudfemora there is a series of from five to seven 

 The curved dorsal apical spiue of the forefemur (PI. VII. fig. 9) is long 

 and thick, while tlie corresponding one of the mid- and hindfemur is much 

 slenderer. The dorsal spine-like bristles of the foretibia (PI. VII. fig. 'J) are 

 less slender than those of the mid- and hindtibiae, but are not at all so much 

 enlarged as in Malacopsylla anilrocli. There are no ventral hairs or only one 

 on the mid- and hindtibiae and two or three subdorsally on the outer surface. 

 There are only three pairs of heavy dorsal bristles on the mid- and hindtibiae, 

 besides a short subbasal pair and one or two which are the remnants of two 

 more pairs. The longest apical dorsal bristle of the hindtibia almost reaches to 

 the apex of the second tarsal segment. The tarsi are peculiar in structure, the 

 fourth segment appearing so closely connected with the fifth as to form one piece 

 with it in a ventral view (PI. VII. fig. 8). In a lateral view the fifth segment 

 is observed to be inserted on the back of the fourth in the middle. That the 

 two segments are employed together as one organ is shown by the fourth segment 

 bearing on each side a large spine corresponding to the spines of the fifth segment. 

 This latter segment is somewhat constricted before the middle and then widened 

 out again ; it bears three pairs of heavy spines, those of the third pair being 

 approximate ; then follow two shorter and much thinner spines on each side ; and 

 there is at the apex, which is produced distad on each side of the claw, a long bristle. 

 The claw is as long as the fifth segment. The heavy bristles of the hindtarsal 

 segments 1, 2 and 3 are very long, the longest of the second segment reaching 

 to the apex of the fifth. The measurements of the tarsi are as follows : — 



Modified Segments. — The clasper of the S bears some long bristles, as shown 

 in the figure (PI. VIII. fig. 13). The finger (f) is hook-shaped, being curved 

 upwards and bearing a number of short hairs. The manubrium (m) is curved 

 upwards, sickle-shaped, its basal half being narrower than its a{)ical half. The 

 ninth sternite (PI. VIII. fig. 13. ix. st.) is narrow, slightly curved upwards at the 

 apex, and bears a row of fine hairs near the dorsal edge and two hairs at the 

 apex, the lower one being the longer. The internal plate of the penis is very 

 broad, being elongate-ovate. The eighth tergite of the ? has no hairs above the 

 stigma, or only a minute one, and one bristle on the outerside (dotted in the figure). 

 But on the innerside there is a row of rather short and stout bristles (PI. VII. 

 fig. 0), the most ventral one standing alone and the longest. The eighth sternite 

 bears a patch of short hairs at the apex. 



* Measured dorsally. 



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