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 8. Spinturnix plecoti Oudms. 



With Plate III, fig. 49 and 50. 



I could not identify the present species with oue of the species 

 of Kolenati; therefore I consider it as new. 



Female. Length 960. Colour and shape usual. 



Dorsal side (Fig. 49). The most striking feature is that before 

 the dorsal shield there are not 8 hairs, but only six hairs, and 

 these are moreover small, two standing on the vertex, and two 

 on each shoulder, having between them a little pit. Behind the 

 peritrema there are from 4 to 7 small hairs, and on the abdonien 

 not more than 6 small hairs. The dorsal shield is subrhoraboid, 

 having 9 pairs of sense-orgaus and numerous pits. Those which 

 I could distinctly discern, I have delineated, but I am sure that 

 there are more pits on the margins. 



Ventral side (Fig. 50). There is a small sternal shield, pyriform, 

 with sharp top forward, surrounded by six small hairs; and with 

 4 pores. A little behind the capitulum there is an indication of a 

 jugular shield. Between the coxae 1 and 2 a small intercoxal shield. 

 A little behind the sternal shield the transverse genital opening 

 is visible, foliowed by a long-triangular small genital shield. The 

 anal shield is small, semicircular and provided with two small 

 hairs. Between the genital and anal shields about 9 pairs of small 

 hairs. Before the coxae 3 the opening of the excretory glaud is 

 visible, but it does not lie in the lenghthening of the peritrema. 



The stigma is dorsal, the peritrema of the usual shape. 



The legs are tolerably slender, each of them having quite distally 



a more or less spool-formed hair above the ambulacrum. On the 



ventral side some of the hairs of the outer row are enormously 



developed, planted as outward as possible and directed outward, viz: 



lec 



Habitat 



Patria: Germany. 



