tullgren: chelonethi from camerun. loi 



palpi yellow-brown. Cheliceres of the same colour. Legs pale 

 testaceous. 



The length of the céphalothorax nearly equal with its breadth. 

 The front-edge broadly truncated, in the middle a little impressed 

 or sinuated. The sides parallel, a little inclined before the 

 eyes. The chitinous skin is finely granulated and is very thinly 

 clothed with comparatively long simple hairs, longest near the 

 front-edge. Length o,i mm.; breadth 0,46 mm. 



Eyes four, distinct; the front-eye a little more directed for- 

 wards; the interval between them as long as the diameter and 

 the distance from the anterior margin of céphalothorax nearly 

 as long. 



Abdomen elongate; the dorsal segments smooth with a row 

 of comparatively long hairs in the hind-edge. 



Cheliceres comparatively large ; the digiti at their inner edge 

 with some short but strong teeth. The movable digitus has no 

 tooth or prominence on the outer edge at the head. Flagellum 

 consists of 4 or 5 long setae of ordinary structure. 



Pedipalpus slender, about as long as the body. Trochanter 

 a little longer than broad; the inner contour slightly convex. 

 Femur not pedicellated, the contours nearly parallel, the inner 

 one first a little inclined then nearly straight, the outer one 

 convex then straight, at the apex slightly convex. Tibia of 

 ordinary shape. Manus a little shorter than digiti, a little more 

 convex at tlie inner contour. Digiti very little curved. AH joints 

 clothed with simple hairs. Those of the femur are short and a 

 little adpressed on the outer side and nearly thrice as long on 

 the inner side. 



Measurements of the joints of pedipalpi. 



II III IV Va Vb 



Length 0,19 mm.; 0,5 mm.; 0,26 mm.; 0,34 mm.; 0,42 mm. 



Breadth 0,14 > 0,14 » 0,17 » 0,2 » 



Legs with long simple hairs. 



Length of the body c. 1,5 mm. 



One single specimen is captured in Camerun by D:r Yngve 



SjÖSTEDT. 



Upsala, March 20, 1901. 



