THE S»>r.J'U(ilJ).+: <>F AMKKirA PUTNAM. ;i59 



vex in front; a small tooth near its base projecting- forwards; a carina ont- 

 -side extending- towards the point; a rather heavy brnsii of feathered hairs 

 inside. Maxillary palpus: femur eight mm.; tibia eight and a half nun.; 

 metatarsus six mm.; tarsus two mm.; femur with a number of large spines 

 on the inside, especially on the ultimate third ; tibia with very few spines, 

 but a good many tine hairs, mostly short, some veiy long, irregular. Meta- 

 tarsus, with some line spines near the base inside, tine hairs elsewhere, 

 mostly short, some hmg, on the inside a cluster of oval or round scales or 

 pustules, l)eginning- two mm. from the base, and e.xtending not <|uite to the 

 tip; tarsus with numerous tine, siiort hairs, some of them long. 



Fourth legs: femur, nine mm. ; tibia eight and a half mm.; nretatarsus 

 five and a half mm.; tarsus four mm.; claws 1.8 n\m. ; femur witli fine hairs, 

 no spine, one or two hairs on the b-ack, long and stout; tibia with fine hairs, 

 two spines inside, near the extremity; metatarsus with a row of nine spines 

 on the lower inside; a row of three spines on the lower outside, besides nu- 

 merous tine hail's; tarsu.s with a row of five spines outside and three inside, 

 besides the usual terminal spines, and fine hairs, flaws, hairs, etc., as usual in 

 the genua Dafiij/ir.y : abdomen oval, elongated, comparatively small, ordinarv 

 form of * genital opening underside of first segment; not as lanie or well de- 

 veloped as usually seen ; spiracles of usual form on second and third se"-- 

 ments. 



One ^ Museum Acad. Xat. Sci., l^hila. Xo locality. | Description writ- 

 ten October 22. 1880.] 



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5 Length twenty-five mm.; color, abdomen and thorax, dark slate cwloi-, 

 variegated, gray ground, blackish speck; head, dark reddish brown; a light 

 yellow spot immediatel}- behind the eye prominence; appendages all of uni- 

 form reddish ochre yellow; fingers of mandibles reddish In-own. with black 

 points, and teeth blunt. 



Jjengths, maxillary palpus, twenty-three mm.; labial i)alpus, eighteen 

 mm.; first legs eighteen mm.; second legs twenty -two mm.; third legs thirty 

 mm.; jaw tip to anus, thirty -three mm.; eyes to anus, twenty-five mm.; ter- 

 minal joint of palpus continuous; tarsus apparently one jointed ; head, seven 

 mm. broad; five mm. long, with faintest possible trace of median stria'; an- 

 terior border straight, oblique at angles, rounded at sides; broadly truncated 

 behind ; liairs very sparse, fine and short; eye prominence of medium size, 

 slightly elevated, and slightly projecting, black in front and at the sides, 

 pale behind, a few fine uneiiual hairs; eyes bluish, their interval greater than 

 their diameter. Mandible, nine mm. long; liase five and half mm. long; 

 strongly convex; swollen at their base; furnished with fine spiny hairs; 

 rather sparse and uneijual; three ob.scnre dorsal longitudinal bands on the 

 base of each; teeth obtuse, two of medium size, followed bvone, rather large 

 one, then a very small denticle, then the largest tooth of all, then two minute 

 denticles; teeth then divide into two .series, the outer with three teeth — the 

 last smallest; the imier series with four teeth, the first large.st, the third next, 

 and the second and fourth, verv small; the lower finder is a little shorter 



