118 RECOEr-S OF THE AUSTRALIAN JIUSEUM. 



xlttems-*^ and Woeltzkow^^ but both references proved to be 

 erroueous. Brolemanu's S. crKOifatits became the type species 

 of Epitrigoiiiuhi-'^, and Attems' ;S'. hulbiferus was made the 

 representative of anew genus, Ft^eiidospiroJ/uleJlits, by Carl.so 



Carl adds to our knowledge of SiiiroJioleUiix, particularly by 

 means of excellent figures-^^ the general features of which cor- 

 respond with the copulatory appendages of the New South 

 Wales species described hereafter. The examination of the 

 latter affords the following complimentary details: — 



Primary characters : — Copulatory appendages (PI. xvi., figs. 

 35-38). Tracheal stalk (tf.) of anterior gonopods directed in- 

 wards, as in Ehi}iocyicus. Coxae produced proximally into long 

 and slender endoskeletic rods (esJr.). Femur not covering any 

 portion of the posterior surface of the organ ; when the latter 

 is viewed from the posterior surface, the femur is seen as a 

 narrow external pad (Feui.) ; its posterior, concave surface is 

 almost entirely concealed by the tibia (T.)^ which realises a 

 development unrecorded in any other genus, being in contact 

 proximally with the tracheal stalk, whilst its apex reaches or 

 overreaches the summit of all the other parts of the organ. 



Posterior gonopods entirely independent, somewhat simihii' 

 to t\\oiie oi Fseudospirohuh'lht.<, but comparatively wider, com- 

 pressed, poorly chitinized, witli a short inner process ; coxal 

 joint not distinct. The seminal duct exists, being an open 

 groove (PI. xvi., (?., fig. 38) provided distally with an open, 

 oval, bladder-like swelling (hi.), the largest diameter of which 

 is transverse ; the duct is bent at a right angle, immediately 

 above the swelling, but is not twisted, and opens distally at the 

 root of the inner process. The ventral ])late of posterior gono- 

 pods could ]iot be traced. 



Secondary characters: — First and second pair of ambulatory 

 legs of male incrassate but without special features ; coxa? of 

 the following pairs, up to the seventh, more or less produced 

 (PI. xvi., fig. 34) ; tarsi not padded. Antennae tipped with 



28 Attems— Miltcil. naturf. Mus. HamlnirK, xxiv., 1907, p. K^l. 



29 Wocltzkow— Hcisc in Ost-Afrika, iii., 1910, p. 92. 

 3" Carl— Revue Suisse Zool., xx., 1912, p. 1(S7. 



^' Carl — Loc. cit., ligs. 25 to L'7. 



