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than legs II and III. Hairs and caruncle normal. 

 . Female (Fig. 43). Length 520-544 m. Colour 

 dark brown. Shape elongate, two and a half times longer 

 than wide, from the point of the mandibles toward exactly 

 behind tochanteres II the creature is triangular, then its 

 sides are a little convex till legs III, further they are straight 

 and parallel to each other, finally the abdomen is well rounded 

 posteriorly. Yet there are 5 light nearly semicircular spots 

 which leave between them the four dark brown abdominal 

 lobes (compare with proto- and deutonympha); apparently the 

 external lobes have become wider and the room between the 

 lobes is filled by a transparent thick membrane (as thick as 

 the lobes themselves). — Texture smooth on the shields; 

 finely wrinkled in the soft parts. 



Dorsal side (Fig. 43). The margin of the prosoma 

 is strongly chitinized and dark-coloured, except the part between 

 the external posterior angle of trochanter I and the internal 

 anterior angle of trochanter II; moreover there is a chitinized 

 dark chitinous band, a little convex outward between the 

 posterior end of trochanter I and the internal anterior angle 

 of trochanter II. Shields. The anterior dorsal shield 

 occupies the space within the prosomatic dark margin except 

 two spaces behind the trochanteres II; yet here the shield is 

 wider than the distance between the trochanteres II, so that 

 it extends also a little behind the trochanteres II nearly half 

 their width. — The raetasoma is protected wholly by the 

 three remaining shields, except a narrow band between them 

 and a very small portion behind the lateral shields. See about 

 the posterior margin of the metasoma hereabove sub »shape«. 

 Hairs. We observe the following long ones; inside of trochan- 

 teres II one pair as long as the anterior shield ; on the pos- 

 terior margin of the body above the light spots between the 

 abdominal lobes (not above the lobes themselves as in the 

 proto- and deutonymphae) two pairs of long hairs slightly 



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