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arms are distinctly impressed. Last ventral plate with caudal margin 

 convex and bending evenly about corners to sides which diverge 

 cephalad. Coxopleurae caudally truncate; bearing spinescent setae 

 along caudal and lateral margins; pores exceedingly fine, almost 

 obliterated, not numerous. Penult legs chiefly with ordinary setae, 

 but with fewer somewhat stouter ones on caudal (mesal) surface. 

 Femur and tibia of anal legs furrowed at distal end above; no teeth or 

 spines at distal end above on any of the joints; femur densely armed 

 below and mesally with Stout, spinescent setae, with no naked ventral 

 area; femur similarly armed but in addition with a single stout tooth; 

 metatarsus with a few stout, spinescent setae on mesal side and with 

 a series of four or five stout teeth beneath; first tarsal joint with two 

 stout teeth beneath. 

 Length, 21 mm. 



10. Cryptops polyodontus Attems. 

 Zool. jahrb. Syst., 1903, 18, p. IO6.1 

 Localities.— Chatham Island. Stephens Island.^ 



11. Cryptops loriae Silvestri. 

 Ann. Mus. civ. Geneva, 1894, 34, p. 628.i 

 Locality. — New Guinea.^ 



12. Cryptops australis Newport. 



Trans. Linn. soc. London, 1845, 19, p. 408. ^ Pocock, Ann. mag. nat. hist., 

 1893, ser. 6, 11, p. 129.^ Kraepelin, Fauna sudw. Austr., 1908, 2, p. 106; » 

 Arkiv zool., 1916, 10, no. 2, p. 2." 



Localities.— New Zealand i^ Wellington.^ W. Australia: Lion 

 Mill, Mundaring Weir, Guildford, Cannington and Pickering Brook 

 in the Swan River District, Jarrahdale, Harvey, Bunbur^^ Boyanup, 

 Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Perth, Albany .^ Queensland: Cedar 

 Creek." 



13, Cryptops tahitianus, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 2,075. Society Islands: Tahiti (W. M. 

 Wheeler). 



Allied to C. australis Newport and doriae Pocock. First dorsal 



