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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 



sternum and pleura of one side coalesced into one plate. No 

 division whatever is to be seen ; yet the proximal inner margin 



shows a reticulate 

 structure covering 

 a wide space which 

 is to be held equiv- 

 alent to the pleural 

 (or to the pleuro- 

 sternal ?) part of the 

 organ. The process 

 of the distal inner 

 angle is rudimental. 

 The bristles are 

 fairly numerous 

 (a dozen or so), and 

 somewhat distant 

 from the anterior 

 margin. Maxillar 

 joints three, rather 

 stout, the distal 

 joint armed with a 

 very short claw 

 (Fig. 22). 



Maxilli pedes 



wide, largely emerg- 

 ing sideways from 

 under the cephalic 

 plate, punctured all over. Tergum short, strongly narrowed 

 anteriorly; its surface uneven, punctured. Pleura? covering the 

 dorsal part of the coxae, scarcely visible on the ventral side, their 

 inner margins almost parallel. Coxosternal plate quadrangular, 

 somewhat broader than long with a faint shallow median 

 impression, and with two rudimental teeth in front. Femora 

 long, armed with two blunt tubercles along the inner edge, one 

 in the middle (trochanter tooth) theothernext to the distal angle. 

 Claw long, with a basal short hook-like tooth (Fig. 23). 



Terga widely punctured ; bisulcate from the first segment, 

 where the sulci are converging anteriorly instead of being 

 parallel as on the following segments. 



Sterna coarsely punctured on the firsl segments, less so on the 

 middle and posterior segments. Ventral pores wanting. From 



the second or third segment to the penultimate the sterna are 

 divided by a median short sulcus equal to nearly one-third of the 



Fig. 22. 



G. curlipes, Haase. First and second 

 maxillae, ventral view. 



