

THE PEDIPALPI, RICINULEI, AND OPILIONES 



(exc. Op. Laniatores) 



coUected by Mr. LEONARDO FEA 



in tropical West Africa and adjacent Islands. 



(With four Plates.) 



SEVERAL years ago Dr. Raffaello Gestro, Director of the 

 Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, asked me 

 to work out the animals of the above-named orders gathered 

 by that most excellent zoological collector Mr. lyconardo Fea, 

 who during 1900- — 1902 spent his last years in exploring partly 

 unhealthy countries in tropical West Africa, viz. Portuguese 

 Guinea, Kameroon, and French Congo, and besides the islands 

 of Fernando Poo, St. Thome, Principe, and Annobon in the 

 Gulf of Guinea; from this voyage Fea returned quite broken 

 down to Italy and died shortly afterwards in April 1903. With 

 pleasure I accepted Dr. Gestro's kind offer, as I expected to 

 tind most interesting animals among the material, but the 

 main portion of the collection, viz. the Opiliones Laniatores, 

 I found it necessary to hand over to a colleague, and be- 

 fore now I could not find the time necessary for the task. 



The material to be dealt with in the present paper is in 

 reality most valuable. It consists of eleven species, but with 

 two exceptions all are new to science. Furthermore I found 

 it necessary to establish three new genera, and two among 

 these are even important. The collection comprises three spe- 

 cies of Pedipalpi Amblypygi, and one af the forms, living in 

 nests of white ants, is completely blind ; furthermore two species 

 of the tribe Tartarides, two species of Cryptostemma and four 

 species of Opiliones, but two of these belong to the small 



