Suborder I. Heniictenodactyli Balz. 



1875. Obisiinae Stecker (35) p. 160. 



1879. Obisiinae Simon (5) p. 19. 



1879. Ohisiidae Hagen -^ Garypidae Hans. (36) p. 400. 



1882. Obisiidae Tömesvary (40) p. 213. 



1884. Obisiinae; Hansen (9) p. 533. 



1889. Ofe/sndae; Daday (11) p. 167. 



1890. Obisiidae; Balzan (46) p. 407. 



1891. Emictenodadyli Balzan (12) p. 505. 



1894. Emictenodactyli; Hansen (49) p. 231. 



1895. Obisiidae Banks ^ Olpiinue Bks. (50) p. 2. 



Serrula exterior distally free; the antennae large; the distance between their 

 hind corner at least as long as '^3 of the posterior margin of the céphalothorax : front 

 margin of the céphalothorax with a median tooth or serrated. (Femur of the two first 

 pair of leys always divided into two joints: tarsus of the two last pair of legs consist 

 always of two joints; the serrula interior is a real serrula, and if not there is no sharp 

 distinction between a basal plate-shape and a terminal serruli-formed division.) 



With regard to the discussion of the different characters, I refer to pp. 52-54. 

 The characters, which I am going to sel forth, are of at least practical value. 

 The lamina exterior is almost always absent; the maxillae are only exceptionally 

 [)laced on a level with the coxae; the céphalothorax slightly or not at all narrower 

 anteriorly than posteriorly and has never any transverse grooves; the abdomen 

 has seldom a dorsal longitudinal line; the hairs are almost always simple; "the 

 eleventh abdominal segment forms a ring without any trace of a division into 

 tergite and sternite". The second joint of the tarsus is always longer than the 

 lirsl; the combined tarsi of the first pair of legs or the single one is much longer 

 than the tibiae; the tarsi of the fourth pair almost as long as or longer than the 

 corresponding tibiae; the articular membrane of the trochantin of the fourth pair 

 of legs is most often almost perpendicular on the longitudinal axis of the leg 

 (cf. the foot-note under the "Sj'nopsis of families ..." p. 58). 



