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toothed and of a different shape, with a heavy hook below its 

 lower point, thus forming a pincer-like lower extremity, the 

 hind fusion to the lateral plates of the cingula is much broader, 

 and the anus is well under the tegumen ; the harpagones are 

 somewhat spherical with a cone-like protrusion in front, which 

 is provided with two strong internal lobes ; the saccus is 

 prominent, and there seems to be a pseudosaccus forming the 

 hind part of the clasp, this being very unusual ; the aedoeagus 

 is a short broad tube, with the upper extremity sharply and 

 suddenly excised. 



The genus Phalera shows considerable deviation in many 

 particulars ; its tegumen is not excised, as both the previous 

 genera were, at the frontal edge of the collar; the cingula is 

 complete, but with the point of articulation with the broad 

 lateral plates very marked, though low down in the sternite ; 

 the harpagones are large and somewhat complicated, whilst 

 there is a deeply hollowed broad trough wherein the sedoeagus 

 lies. These points show an interesting combination of 

 primitive and of markedly progressive characters. So far as 

 I have as yet investigated the group it would appear to be 

 exceptional in several points, all of which are very well 

 shown in bucephaloides, the description which follows being 

 thoroughly representative of the whole genus. 



Phalera btccephaloides, 0. 



The cingula is practically complete in itself, with traces of 

 the saccus in the broadish plates at the base of the sternite, 

 above these it suddenly contracts quite narrowly and is 

 articulated to the harpagones, as also to the broad lateral 

 plates which ascend to the tegumen, and are fused thereto 

 almost on the dorsum itself; the tegumen is most simple, 

 being merely a long beak-like uncal projection ; just below 

 this attached to the laterals lies an apophysis somewhat 

 difficult to describe, roughly it is very like a Chinese lady's 

 foot, with the deep hollow below the instep, through the upper 

 part of which the anus passes ; the harpagones are large, of a 

 somewhat long quadrate shape, hollowed on the lower edge 

 and arched on the upper edge, along which lies, as a prominent 

 part of it, a peculiar trumpet-shaped process; in the hinder 



