^ 300 — 



sides; the tibia of fourth leg furnished with on apical pair of very 

 long, stout bristles below; metatarsus unarmed above, with 1+2 

 long, curved spines below; tarsus four-jointed, below with 2+2/0'2/0 

 long, curved at npex, stout spines and with a brush of reddish bristles 

 similar to those on the second and third pairs of legs. 



Measurements (in millimeters) — total length 18,2; width 

 of head-plate 4,o; length of mandibles 5,o; length of palps 15,2; length 

 of tibia 5,0; length of metatarsus 3,8; length of tarsus 1,6; length of 

 fourth leg 23,0; length of tibia 5,7. 



Locality — a single cf (type) from Abu-Gas, 6. V. 1913. 



Solpuga funksoni, sp. n. 



$. Colour — ground colour fox-reddish-yellow; truncus with 

 a clothing of deep brownish bristles above; mandibles uniform 

 reddish-yellow, without any longitudinal dark stripes; head-plate 

 slightly infuscate in the middle part, marbled with brownish on each 

 side behind the ocular tubercle; a fine black line along the frontal 

 border of the head-plate; the ocular tubercle yellow in the middle, 

 with a black ring round each eye; thoracal segments blackish above; 

 abdomen citron-yellow, with a dense clothing of citron-yellow hairs 

 below and on the sides; above on the terga 1 — 5 and at the sides 

 irregulary tinged with black; abdominal segments 6 — 9 pale yellow, 

 all bordered along the dorsal, lateral and, partly, ventral parts of the 

 hind edge by a fine black line; anal segment with blackish tinge; 

 palps from the basal joints to the basal half of the metatarsus uniform 

 reddish-yellow, with a not dense clothing of brownish hairs and 

 bristles; distal half of the metatarsus above deep purplish-black, pale 

 spotted; its lower surface and the whole tarsus fuscous with reddish- 

 yellow hairs and bristles; metatarsus (except the basal part) and tarsus 

 of the first pair of legs deeply infuscate; the second, third and fourth 

 pairs of legs uniform reddish-yellow, distally slightly paler, with 

 brownish bristles and spines. Malleoli uniform pale yellow. 



Head-plate — trapezoidal, with cephalic lateral lobes small 

 and very short, which do not extend the level of the front; this latter 

 slightly convex; ocular tubercle prominent, high and wide, equalling 

 in width about one-third the width of the front, with numerous long 

 bristles on the frontal side and a few short ones behind; width of the 

 head-plate (6,0 mm) a little less than the length of tibia (7,o mm) 

 and metatarsus (6,2 mm) of palpus, or of 4th leg. 



Mandibles — inflated, gradually narrowed at base of the 

 long, straight upper fang, densely clothed with long brownish for- 

 wards recurved bristles; the length of the mandible a little exceeding 

 the length of the tibia of palpus. Upper jaw with 9 teeth; the first 



Revue Russe d'Entom. XV. 1915. № 3. 



