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beliind the excavation 5 low and broad teeth ; on a level 

 with the médian one of thèse the small, inconspicnous pi lu s 

 dentarius is placed ; pilus basalis small, curved, inserted 

 on a level with the base of the lower jaw, immediately behind 

 the small incision which is always to be found in the upper 

 jaw, although sometimes higher up, sometimes lower down 

 on the jaw ; lower jaw with 4 teeth of subequal size, the two 

 posterior ones set more closely together than the others. 



The palpi and hypostoma are uniform with those of 

 the maie. 



Ventral side (fig. 85). 



No jugular shields. The sterniti-metasternal shield 

 projects backwards to the middle of coxae III ; it is fused with 

 . the endopodal shields 1 and II, but the endopodal 

 shields are free, the metasternal shields being fused with 

 the sternal shield as in Gamasellus Tbagardh (1910, fig. 102) 

 and Laelogamasus (Berlese, 1906, textfig. 19). The anterior 

 margin is only very slightly concave, the posterior one more 

 deeply excavated ; 4 pairs of hairs, the anterior of which are 

 inserted in a straight Hne, one behind the other, the fore- 

 most one being inserted as far from the middle as from the 

 latéral margin ; the fourth pair is placed submarginally in the 

 posterior angles, and points backwards. 



The epigynial shield is trapézoïdal, broadly rounded ante- 

 riorly, with obtusely rounded posterior angles ; greatest width 

 to length as 11 : 12, width anteriorly 8 ; it projects backwards 

 beyond coxae IV with its posterior third ; one pair of submar- 

 ginal hairs on a level with the posterior margin of coxae IV. 

 Ventral and anal shields fused into one large shield of the 

 same shape as in the maie, but a little smaller, the strip of 

 soft cuticle between the epigynium and the ventri-anal 

 shield being broader ; it has 6 hairs of hairs on the ventral 

 part, placed as shown in figure 85, and 3 smaller hairs on 

 the anal part. In front of the shield there are 4 small hairs in a 

 transverse row, and on its external side 3 pairs, as large as the 



