COLOSSENDEIDAE 



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Ocular tubercle high, distal half narrow and sharply conical ; anterior much larger 

 than posterior pair of eyes. 



Proboscis scarcely longer than trunk; narrow and cylindrical in proximal third, 

 expanding in centre to 1-5 times, and again at apex to 1-25 times the proximal diameter. 



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Fig. 6. Colossendeis frigida, Hodgson : a. Terminal segments of third leg of a 



young specimen from St. 149. dznd d' . Terminal segments of palp. 

 C. scoresbii, n. sp. : b. Terminal segments of third leg of adult from St. WS 93. 

 b'. Same of chelophorous larva from St. WS 92. c and c' . Terminal segments 

 of palp. («, b and b' , x 11 ; c-d' , x 13.) 



Abdomen reaching to distal articulation of first coxa. 



Palp. Second more than half as long again as fourth segment ; terminal segments as 

 represented in Fig. 6 c and c' . 



Oviger. Fourth and sixth segments subequal; seventh rather longer, tenth rather 

 shorter than either of the two intervening segments; terminal claw short; spines 



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