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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  VOL. 
  98 
  

  

  rated 
  by 
  about 
  their 
  own 
  diameter. 
  Neck 
  short, 
  relatively 
  thick. 
  Eye 
  

   tubercle 
  low, 
  bluntly 
  rounded, 
  with 
  well-developed 
  eyes. 
  

  

  Proboscis: 
  About 
  one 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  neck, 
  slender, 
  

   cylindrical, 
  and 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip. 
  

  

  Abdomen 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  last 
  lateral 
  processes, 
  papilliform, 
  rounded 
  at 
  

   tip, 
  erect 
  at 
  an 
  angle 
  of 
  about 
  45°. 
  

  

  Chelifore: 
  Scape 
  slender, 
  not 
  quite 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  proboscis, 
  slightly 
  

   arched. 
  Chela 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  scape, 
  fingers 
  and 
  palm 
  subequal. 
  

   Fingers 
  moderately 
  heavy, 
  well 
  arched, 
  armed 
  with 
  10 
  relatively 
  heavy 
  

   spinules 
  on 
  the 
  immovable 
  finger 
  and 
  about 
  15 
  on 
  the 
  dactylus. 
  

  

  xxvx- 
  

  

  FlGURE 
  26 
  

  

  d, 
  third 
  

   oviger. 
  

  

  ^ 
  \ 
  ^ 
  s 
  ^ 
  ^ 
  - 
  - 
  

  

  — 
  Nymphon 
  gunteri, 
  new 
  species: 
  a, 
  Dorsal 
  view 
  of 
  holotype; 
  h, 
  palpus; 
  c, 
  chela; 
  

   leg; 
  e, 
  tarsus 
  and 
  propodus; 
  /, 
  compound 
  spine 
  of 
  oviger; 
  g, 
  terminal 
  claw 
  of 
  

  

  Palpus 
  slender, 
  the 
  last 
  two 
  joints 
  overreaching 
  the 
  proboscis. 
  Sec- 
  

   ond 
  and 
  third 
  joints 
  subequal, 
  fourth 
  joint 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  fifth, 
  the 
  two 
  together 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  third. 
  Terminal 
  joints 
  

   armed 
  with 
  fine 
  setae. 
  

  

  Oviger: 
  Fourth 
  and 
  fifth 
  joints 
  subequal, 
  relatively 
  straight, 
  the 
  

   fifth 
  slightly 
  expanded 
  distally. 
  Compound 
  spines 
  of 
  terminal 
  joints 
  

   moderately 
  broad, 
  with 
  two 
  pairs 
  of 
  basal 
  denticulations, 
  and 
  several 
  

   pairs 
  of 
  finer, 
  but 
  relatively 
  coarse, 
  deticulations 
  toward 
  the 
  end. 
  

  

  Third 
  leg 
  : 
  First 
  and 
  third 
  coxae 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  subequal, 
  

   second 
  coxae 
  not 
  quite 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  first 
  and 
  third 
  together. 
  Femur 
  

   not 
  markedly 
  shorter 
  than 
  first 
  tibia. 
  Second 
  tibia 
  about 
  one-and- 
  

  

  