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than III and provided with a retractile terminal organ. 

 t^Jyes 8 + 8, the proximal ones distinctly smaller than the 

 other ones, "maculae" oval. Clav^-joints nearly straight, 

 with a proximal donble-tooth and two simple distal ones. 

 Pseudonychids very indistinct, often growing together with 

 the incrassated superior margin of the claw, empodial 

 appendices straight, slightly rounded towards the tips, in 

 extr. Ill longest. 



Tibiae unjointed ; there is a tibiotarsal, sensitive, incrassated 

 seta, extending slightly above the proximal tooth of the claw. 

 Furcula covered with scales, dental ring, often suddenly 

 interrupted, mucrones falciform. Scales in the free margin 

 rounded, with very fine striation. On the head and body 

 robust club-shaped setae ; a tuft of comparatively long, serrated 

 setae on the apical segment. There are also long soft, feather- 

 shaped hairs on Ant. II, Abd. IV and V and on the ventral 

 side of the fork. 



Remarks. It deserves to be mentioned that none of the 

 authors except Bdrner refers to the retractile terminal organ 

 of Ant. IV. Probably the organ has been overlooked, in spite 

 of being very obvious at least in Pseudosira elegans. Upon 

 the character of the interrupted, dental rings in the fork too 

 much stress should perhaps not be laid. The rings do not 

 disappear unnoticeably as in Lcpidocyrtus, but intermediate 

 states seem to occur. The diagnosis of the species ought 

 probably to be based chiefly or entirely on the colour 

 markings. 



5. Pseudosira f.\sciata n. sp. 

 Diagnosis. Ant. 1=1 : 0.35. 



Ant. I: II: III: IY = 1: 1.65: 1.75: 2.75. 

 Abd. Ill: IV=1 ; 3. 

 Manubr : Mucrodens=l : 1.36. 

 Coloration. Honey-yellow, with a lateral black border 

 from Th. Ill to Abd. III. On Abd. Ill, and sometimes also 

 on II, the lateral spots continue over the dorsal side and 

 form cross-bands ; at the posterior margin of the big abdominal 

 segment a lateral spot. Ant. II and III dark at the tips, 

 IV entirely green-black. 



Locality. A number of mostly damaged specimens from 

 the jungle near Tutau Eiver, a branch of the Baram Eiver, 

 Northern Sarawak. 



