Pedii)al[)i, Ricinulei. ami (^piliones. 2Q 



Male. 



Similar to the females in most features, but differs strongh* 

 in thickness and shape of the two anterior pairs of legs. First 

 legs (fig. I b) are on the whole stouter than in the female (fig. 

 I c) ; tibia and metatarsus are nmch thicker and differently 

 shaped. Tibia only half as long again as thick (in the female 

 twice as long as thick), thickened below but without any pro- 

 cess; metatarsus widened below, with the inferior margin con- 

 spicuously more convex than in the female. — Second legs 

 (fig. I b) extremely altered ; femur always enormously thickened 

 upwards and downwards, but yet showing considerable indi- 

 vidual variation; in the specimen figured the femur is a little 

 less than twice as long as deep at the middle (in the female 

 (fig. I c) about four times as long as deep) , but in one specimen 

 it is scarcely two-thirds as long again as deep; the femur has 

 therefore both the upper and the lower margin very convex 

 but it is much compressed; besides the granules on the major 

 part of the anterior and the posterior side are feeblj^ developed, 

 and in some specimens the dorsal longitudinal furrow has 

 disappeared, while it is distinct in other specimens. Tibia on 

 the lower side near the base produced into a long and thick, 

 obtuse, a little curved process directed downwards and forwards, 

 and granulated as the remainder of the joint. Metatarsus has 

 frequently a short portion near the middle of the lower margin 

 distinctly produced as an oblong, low protuberance, but in 

 other specimens this expansion is very feeble. 



The copulatory organ, excepting its movable process on 

 first tarsal joint, agrees so closely with that of C. Karschii 

 Hans. & Sor. described and figured in 1904, that it may be 

 omitted here. As usual the movable i)rocess mentioned has a 

 shape of its own, affording specific characters. Its second seg- 

 ment is more than twice as long as the first (fig. i e) ; seen from 

 the outer side (fig. i f) its major distal part is lamellar and rather 



