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posterior inner angle of trochanter IV, E p i a n d r i u ra in 

 general shaped like an inverted A. Before this you observe 

 three interior T-like structures of which the median one is 

 straight ; the other ones are oblique. In the trunk of the A) 

 where it dévides in the two branches, you observe the 4 

 genital suckers. The penis (Fig. 48) is curve, short, 

 and has a small crescent-shaped basal piece. The anus is 

 not terminal, reaching not even the transparent membrane, 

 which in my opinion is a proof that the incision is again 

 becoming smaller and that the anus has not yet followed it. 

 Anal suckers remote from each other .scarcely the half 

 of their own diameter, exactly flanking the anus. Shields. 

 Like in the female (compare fig. 44) the lateral shields 

 are somewhat eroded. The ventral shield includes the lobes, 

 the anus and the anal suckers. The room within the branches 

 of the A is unwrinkled, forms a genital shield. The two 

 shields are distinctly separate, though touching each other. 

 The abdominal margin of the posterior dorsal shield is suf- 

 flexed ventrally. Hairs. To the sides of the sternum a pair 

 of very short hairs. Before the proximal ends of epinierites III a 

 pair of ditto. Aside of the genital suckers a pair of ditto. Behind 

 the penis a pair of ditto, and before the anal suckers a pair 

 of ditto. 



Mandibles normal. 



Maxillae. Remark the square subcapital piece formed by 

 the fusion of the maxillar bases mutually and with the first 

 three joints of the palps. 



Legs I as long as the greatest width of the body, rather 

 slender ; their tarsus (fig. 50) distally with ventral and some- 

 what external claw or backwardly directed claw-like widening. 

 Legs II shorter ; their femur (fig. 49) ventrally and somewhat 

 externally with movable triangular blade Avhich may be rolled 

 up dorsalward in such a manner, that it covers dorsally a 

 great part of the femur and the genu and may be easily 



