216 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Talpi. — Moderate]}' long, strong, similar in colour and 

 arinature to legs; femur slightly bowed; tibia armed witli seven 

 long, stout spines, and the tarsus with twelve; claw long and 

 furnished with one large tooth at base. Measurements in 

 millimeters as follow: — Coxa, 5.5 ; trochanter and femur, 9.2 ; 

 patella and tibia, 7.7 ; tarsus, 5.7 ; total, 28.1. 



FaJces. — Concolorous with legs, clothed with long, 



coarse haii's or bristles ; there are, however, areas f 



running from base to near the apex that are fi-ee ,•, 



from hirsute clothing and these are smooth and ••'» 



shininar, broadest at the base, and acuminate at •• 



apex ; outer ajigles fringed with reddish hairs; each • 



falx has two of these, the uppermost one in each • 



case being much the broadest; the outer margin of pj 97—^ ? 



the furi'ow of each falx has a series of eight strong lo'igipfs, i.. 



teeth, an inner row of six, while at apical extremity scheme of 



there are two additional teeth that constitute a dentition, 

 second inner row ; the inner mai-gin of the furrow of each falx 

 has two very large and very strong teeth (fig. 27). 



Miwtlht'. — Dark brown, divirgent, arched, hairy, curving 

 round the lahimn to a narrowish heel at lower extremity; inner 

 angles fringed with long reddish hairs, and fui-nished near 

 their base with a few tooth like spines. 



]ji(hiiiiii. — Concolortuis genei'ally, tlumgli slightly paler at 

 apex, short, broad, nearly square, arched, slightly curved at 

 apex, hairy, and having a few toothlike spines at apex. 



SteniunK — Dark brown also, tliough slightly lighter in colour 

 at posterior extremity, navi'owest, in front where it is excava- 

 ted to I'eceive base of labium ; it is bi-oadest at a jioint near 

 the third pair of coxsb, arched, liairy ; fiijiUn moderate and 

 marginal. 



Abdomen. — Apparently obovate and slightly overhanging base 

 of cephalothorax (unfortunately this part of the body had been 

 injured in collecting) ; above it is of dai'k bi-own colour and 

 hairy ; beneath it is dark brown also, and clothed with long 

 hair ; jiuIrnoiiKnj cfKCt^ yellowish ; the chitinous plate imniedi- 

 atel}' above the rii)i(( <-p!(i(tstn's has a i)ale yellowisli patch at 

 the middle of the lower angle. 



