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between iuuer pedal shields aud sterno-metasterno-genital 

 portion is discernible. Ventral portion pentangular, imagi- 

 nary top forward. Anal shield triangular, top backward, 

 with slightly convex sides, rounded angles aud small 

 cribrum. Inguinal shields minute, round. No peritrematic 

 shields. No outer pedal shields; also the parts between 

 coxae II and III and between III and IV are wantino-, so 

 that the three foveolae pedales II, III and IV form together 

 one large hole. Hairs. Three sternal pairs of long bristles 

 of which the first pair close to the genital aperture; one 

 metasterna] pair of ditto in the angles between coxae III 

 and IV; one genital pair of ditto between coxae IV. 

 Ventral shield densely set with minute bristles, except in 

 a square median portion which may be considered as a 

 ventral prolongation of the genital part; the bristles are 

 arranged in rows two of which are parallel to the 

 sides of the shield; the remaining hairs in more or less 

 transverse rows. Anal shield with the usual 3 hairs, which 

 are long. Moreover behind the ventral shield a transverse 

 row of 4 bristles ; towards the sides of this shield about 8 rows 

 of about 7 bristles each, running from the shield outward 

 and backward, and a row of minute bristles close to the 

 edge of the body, extending from the shoulders backward 

 to the anal shield. A bare space surrounds this shield. 



Epistome (fig. 3). The forward curved line (posteriorly 

 in my figure) represents the posterior limit of the capi- 

 tulum, where it is attached to the weak skin of the under- 

 side of the prosoma. The dorsal side of the capitulum does 

 not show demarcations of the coxal parts of the palpi and 

 the real epistoma. This latter is provided anteriorly with 

 a straight transverse fine ridge, before which there is a 

 forward curved transverse fine line uniting the distal ends 

 of the two coxal parts of the palpi. And before this line 

 one observes the triangular transparent piece, generally 

 called the epistoma ; the point of the triangle reaches 

 beyond the middle of the femur of the palp ; proximally 

 the triangle is spread even over the trochanters of the palp ! 



JVotes from the Leyden IMuseum , "V^ol. XXIV. 



