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stili a little wider in that region where the eyes, if present, should 

 have been situated ; in this place cephalothorax is a little swollen, and 

 the hair, generally found near the eye in Obisium, is present; about 

 at the middle of cephalothorax there is a distinct lateral contraction, 

 and dose before the hinder margin is found a very conspicuous, trans- 

 versal. groovelike depression with stili stronger, lateral contraction. 

 The front margin is slightly convex, with no tooth in the middle; 

 the surface of cephalothorax is somewhat glossy and nearly smooth 

 with dispersed, rather strong, pointed hairs. 



Abdomen is dried up. 



Palps very long, smooth and glossy, except the inner side of femur, 

 which is very dispersedly and very minutely granulose. The hairs 

 of the palps are on the inner side somewhat longer than on the outer 

 side. — Trochanter with a very short stalk, much longer than broad, 

 the inner side slightly convex, the outer side nearly straight. Femur 

 without a visible stalk, very stender, \evy slowly increasing in width 

 from base to extremity, the inner side nearly straight, the outer side 

 nearly straight too, only slightly convex next to the extremity. Tibia 

 with a curved stalk, somewhat shorter than femur, from the stalk 

 very slowly increasing in width in the proximal half, in the distai 

 half widening somewhat more strongly, the inner side nearly straight, 

 the outer side in the proximal half very slightly concave, towards 

 the extremity slightly convex. Hand with a short stalk, about 2 / 3 of 

 the length of tibia and somewhat broader, the outer side nearly 

 straight, the inner side slightly convex, in ali rather equal in breadth 

 throughout, very little attenuated towards the base. Fingers nearly 

 twice as long as hand, somewhat curved, on the inner margins with 

 numerous, minute, somewhat truncated, equal teeth. 



Mandibles: the moveable finger not swollen at the rounding of the 

 point, somewhat longer than the trunk. 



Legs long, with pointed hairs. Coxa of the two anterior pairs of 

 Jegs with a small, brown point at the outer corner ; the femoraofthe 

 two posterior pairs of legs narrow. Claws simple. 



Length: somewhat more than 3 mm., but abdomen is dried up and 

 contracted. The width of abdomen seems to have been about equal 

 to that of cephalothorax. 



Measurements : Cephalothorax: long. 1,31; lat. 0,72 (in the region 

 where the eyes should have been). Trochanter: long. 0,80; lat. 0,24. 

 Femur: long. 1,76; lat. near the extremity 0,24. Tibia: long. 1,60; lat. 

 near the extremity 0,32. Hand: long. 1,07; lat. 0,40. Fingers: long. 

 1,92 mm. 



Italy: Grotta di Bossea (prov. Cuneo) 1 specimen (Dr. A. Borelli). 



According to the description of E. Simon, the animai was to have 



