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The whole creature is usually so covered by the cast 

 skins, and by white or grey powder, which adheres in 

 quantities to all the upper and lateral parts of the body, 

 and to the legs and every hair upon them, that neither 

 colour nor texture can be seen from the dorsal aspect ; 

 sometimes however the powder is partly rubbed off, or 

 the cast skins gone. 



Cephalothorax. — Rostrum rather rounded. Rostral 

 hairs fine and sharply curved. The cephalothorax is 

 divided, but not very plainly, into three divisions, 

 firstly the rostrum, then a more rounded portion 

 deeply indented posteriorly for the insertion of the 

 first pair of legs, and finally, a mammillated posterior 

 part bearing the pseudo-stigmata, and having a large, 

 rather trifid projection on each side with a sharp 

 anterior tooth or corner, and the second leg is articu- 

 lated to its hinder edge. There are not any other 

 markings on the cephalothorax. Pseudo-stigmata near 

 together, rather trumpet-shaped ; pseudo-stigmatic 

 organs very long and setiform with curved or undu- 

 lated ends, which in clean and perfect specimens are 

 very fine and long ; but these ends appear often to get 

 either broken off or matted up, and then the organ looks 

 shorter and blunter ; indeed, it often looks as though 

 it increased a little in thickness towards the distal end, 

 probably from matter adhering to it. Interlamellar 

 hairs setiform, curved, of moderate length ; there is a 

 shorter, more sharply-curved hair on the outer side of 

 each pseudo-stigma. 



Legs short for the genus ; joints with thin proximal 

 ends, and sudden almost globular enlargements, giving a 

 very moniliform appearance. Each joint bears a 

 whorl of sharply curved hairs. Tactile hairs on all 

 legs and the usual hairs on the tarsi. 



Abdomen a short oval, almost globular, rounded 

 posteriorly ; without markings. There are projecting 

 tooth-like points between the second and third, and 

 between the third and fourth legs, protecting the 

 articulations. Two stout hairs stand forward from 



