272 



COLE 



Joints 3 to 8 are provided, mostly on the outer curve, with rather long, 

 closely set bristles, which tend to turn backward for the most part, ex- 

 cept on/.3. 



Eggs carried by the male in numerous small pear-shaped masses, 

 which are attached to the ovigera by short thread-like stalks. One male 

 may carry between 30 and 40 of these masses, in each of which there 

 are relatively few eggs. 



Legs about twice as long as body : c. i short, square, provided on the 

 dorsodistal border with a strong median protuberance which has on each 

 side of it a smaller projection bearing a few short bristles and forming the 

 outer corners of the joint (pi. xix, fig. 2) ; c.2 nearly twice as long as r.i, 

 bearing in the male on the third and fourth legs, in the usual position, a 

 long thumb-like genital projection, about half as long as the joint from 

 which it arises, considerably broader distally than proximally, and rather 

 thickly beset with long slender bristles ; ^.3 shorter again. Femoral joint 

 about equal to coxal region, of the usual shape, much broader in the female 

 and with a rounded protuberance distally on the dorsal edge ; /.i and /.2 

 about equal to each other and to /. in length, but of smaller diameter 

 than the last ; ts. i small, triangular, rounded below ; ts, 2 stout, over half 

 as long as /.2, rather strongly arcuate; heel hardly differentiated, but 

 there are 3 rather strong, distally curved spines at this point; sole 

 armed with comparatively long, thickly set bristles which extend back 

 on to the heel (fig. 5). Claw about half as long as ts.2, but slightly 

 curved ; aux. cl. well developed, half as long as cL All the joints beyond 

 c.x beset with more or less scattered short bristles; these are consider- 

 ably longer and thickly crowded on the ventral side of <r.3 and the 

 proximal end of/. 



Length 6 mm. to 7 mm., extent fully 30 mm. ; the two sexes about 

 the same size. 



Color in alcohol yellow to dark brown. Integument thick ; cuticular 

 cavities large and numerous. 



Immature specime7i. — There was with Lot 2 one immature specimen, 

 about two thirds the size of the adult animals, and with chelate chelifori ; 

 the chelae rather stout and strongly forcipate (fig. 3). The ovigera were 

 small and undeveloped. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED. 



