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bearing a caudal series of three stout dark teeth of which the median is longest 

 and just in front of these two other stout teeth, all teeth projecting more or 

 less ventrad. 



Basal plate largely overlapped by the cephahc; the exposed portion short, 

 five and a half times wider than long, the covered part a httle longer than the 

 exposed. 



Claws of prehensors when closed reaching to near end of the second antennal 

 article; femuroid armed distally with a short blunt tooth and proximad of 

 trochanter suture with an obscure one; claw armed at base with a long, dis- 

 tally obliquely truncate tooth which narrows but little distad. 



Prosternum armed on anterior margin with two large, bluntly rounded 

 processes or teeth which are but narrowly separated from each other. 



First legs a Uttle shorter and more slender than the second, the latter 

 equalling the third. 



No ventral pores. 



Spiracles all circular, the first much the largest, the second intermediate. 



Last ventral plate wide, strongly narrowed caudad, the margin forming an 

 evenly convex curve about caudal corners and caudal end. Coxopleural 

 pores covered by last plate. 



Pairs of legs, thirty-seven. 



Length, 19 mm. 



Zelanophilus, gen, nov. 



Frontal suture present. No clypeal area present. In character of labrum 

 suggesting Pachymeroides but the lateral pieces actually come in contact in 

 the middle line ; lateral pieces strongly pectinate ; median piece more strongly 

 chitinized, with numerous stout subconical teeth. Both divisions of first 

 maxiUae separated off; outer division biarticulate, the second article much 

 exceeding the first in length; coxae chitinized throughout instead of only 

 ectally, fused ; no lappets present. Second maxillae of geophiloid form ; short, 

 coxae firmly united at middle, pore not enclosed mesally. Prehensors when 

 closed but sUghtly exceeding the head; claw unarmed; femuroid armed; no 

 chitinous lines present. Ventral pores present in a band caudad of middle of 

 plates, numerous. Last ventral plate narrow. Coxopleural pores numerous, 

 occurring dorsally as well as ventrally. Anal legs with claw, but the latter, 

 in type, reduced. 



Genotype. — Z. whcclcri, sp. nov. 



111. Zelanophilus wheeleri, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 1,897. Paratypes.— M. C. Z. 1,898. New 

 Zealand: Wellington, Plummerton, August, 1914 (W. M. Wheeler). 



