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of the scutum. Mandibles and palps unicolourous pale yellowish. 

 Legs pale yellowish; trochanters, femora and tibiae with small, but 

 very distinct black apical rings ; only the patellae entirely black. 



12. Macrobunus aborensis, sp. nov. 



7 specimens (20', 5 9 ): Renging, ig-xii-igii, under bark. 

 I ,, {&): Upper Rotung {ca. 2000 ft.), 6-i-i9i2, under 



leaf-stem of plantain. 



1 ,, ( 2 ): Yembung (iioo ft.), 13 — i7-i-i9i2. 



Habitus, armature and measurements entirely the same as in 

 Macrobunus singular is , Rwr.. differing from this species only in the 

 absence of the two trilobate white spots on the lateral margins of 

 the abdominal scutum. There is a very distinct and very narrow 

 pale ferruginous line on each lateral margin of the scutum and on 

 the posterior margin of it and of every free dorsal .segment of the 

 abdomen. 



II. Fam. PHALANGODIDAE. 



(a) Subfam. Epedaninae. 



Metathyreotus, gen. nov. 



This new genus has precisely the same diagnosis as the genus 

 Thyreotus, Thorell (c/. Roewer 1912 in: Arch. f. Naturg., A. 3, p. 

 226), except that the femur of the palp has no inner apical spine 

 and is unarmed there, while Thyreotus, Thorell, shows there two 

 long spines. 



13. Metathyreotus aborensis, sp. nov. 



2 specimens: Rotung (1300 ft.), 3o-xii-i9ii, under stones. 



Measurements in mm.: body 3; palp 7; ist leg 7; 2nd 13; 

 3rd 9; 4th II. 



Habitus and armature of the body, of the mandibles and of 

 the legs entirely the same as in Thyreotus bimaculatus, Roewer 

 (1912), except for the following particulars: 



Palp with the same habitus as Thyreotus bimaculatus, Rwr., 

 but differing in the armature. Coxa dorsally entirely smooth; 

 trochanter dorsally with one small granule and ventrally with two ; 

 the long cylindrical femur dorsally and at the inner apical tip 

 entirely smooth, ventrally with four or five short tubercles (no 

 spines !); patella on the inner tip with two and on the outer one with 

 one long spine; tibia with three inner and four outer long spines; 

 tarsus with three inner and four outer long spines. 



Number of the tarsal segments 10; 20; 7; 7; terminal part 

 of the 1st tarsus with 2, of the 2nd tarsus with 3 segments 



Colour of the body and of the limbs the same as in Thyreotus 

 bimaculatus , Rwr. ; but wanting only the two white spots on the 

 cephalothorax of the latter. 



