Japan and the Loo-Choo Islands. G29 



ones at the base), and tliey are rather long and blunt, the 

 middle ones being truncate at the end, the others bluntly 

 pointed ; processes of the inner side four in number, they are 

 much shorter than those on the outer side, and all of tliem 

 are bluntly pointed. Second segment of the clielicera with 

 four fairly long processes (or teeth) arranged in a longitudinal 

 row near the inner side of its dorsal surface, and in the middle 

 of it there is a row of 6-8 granules running parallel with the 

 inner row of processes. Fingers armed with minute teeth 

 only. 



Palp armed with long spines. Its femur has an apical 

 spine on the inner side above, a row of three spines near 

 the proximal end below, and another much smaller spine 

 close to the distal end. Patella with two spines on the inner 

 and one on the outer side. Tibia with three spines on each 

 side, but those of the proximal pair are smaller than the 

 otheis (on one palp the inner spine of the proximal pair is 

 missing, but doubtless this is an individual abnormality). 

 Tarsus with two spines on each side. 



Legs comparatively short. Trochanter of Jirst leg with a 

 conical tubercle above and two below. Dorsal and ventral 

 spines of femur numerous, stout, and placed close together; 

 in the upper row there are 12—13 of them and in the lower 

 IL Patella fairly long; dorsally it has a number of 

 tubercles and also of fairly long processes towards the inner 

 side; two or three tubercles are present on its lower surface. 

 Tibia longer than patella ; it has an inner row of nine pro- 

 cesses and an outer row of conical granules, much smaller in 

 size than the processes of the inner side. Metatarsus with 

 only minute granules (in the series on each side), but each 

 granule carries a stiff pointed hair or seta, much resembling 

 that which is carried by the processes of the proximal seg- 

 ments of the limb, only weaker. Tibia of second leg slightly 

 longer than its metatarsus and than the tibia of the fourth. 

 Number of tarsal segments 3, 4, 5, 5. [My figures of the 

 first leg of this species and of S. indicus show only two 

 tarsal joints, but there are really three. In the figure of 

 S. ahiyamce the short hairs on the sides of the segments of 

 the first leg are drawn too large. Tliey must not be mistaken 

 for spines.] 



Length of body 4 mm. 



Colour. — Dorsal surface deep, almost blackish brown ; the 

 scutum with some paler brown markings; ventral surface 

 paler than the dorsal surface. (Uielicera and palp somewhat 

 darkened ; legs deep brown except for the tarsi, which are 

 pale. 



