NEW JAPYGIDAE—EWING AND FOX 297 
tum, the latter bearing many setae of varying lengths. Metanotum 
similar to mesonotum but slightly larger. All four pairs of thoracic 
spiracles present, but only the first pair large and conspicuous. Tarsi 
each terminated by two slightly unequal lateral claws and a minute 
median claw, which is easily overlooked. 
Abdomen with terga II to VII subequal, each having a hyaline 
median groove and a transverse line near its anterior end, in front 
of which are a few microsetae. Segment VII of abdomen equal in 
width to VI but more heavily sclerotized and with more conspicuous 
posterior angular lobes; segment VIII not so broad as VII but more 
heavily sclerotized; segment TX of usual shape and X dorsally about 
as broad as long. Subcoxal organs of segment I each with a fringe 
of short, subequal setae, but with no microsetae; median gland large 
and possessing many disculi (pl. 34, fig. 7) which are unusual in that 
they are angulate instead of circular and so completely contiguous that 
they occupy all the surface of the gland. Styli each with a poorly 
| developed basal spur and a single, conspicuous, curved seta. Forceps 
heavily pigmented and sclerotized; basal three-fifths of left arm pro- 
_vided with two rows of similar teeth, the lower of which is not seen 
from above and hence not shown in figure 8. 
Length of body, including forceps, 12.3 mm.; width (that of seg- 
ment III of abdomen), 1.7 mm. 
| Type locality.—Cacao, Guatemala. 
| Type (holotype). —U.S.N.M. No. 55218. 
— Remarks.—Material at hand as follows: Three specimens from type 
locality, March 1906, by E. A. Schwarz and H. S. Barber; three speci- 
mens (two young) from type locality, March 25, 1906, same collectors; 
three specimens, “Cacao, Trece Aguas, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala IV,” 
March 27-29, 1906, same collectors; one specimen from type locality 
April 1906, same collectors; one specimen from Purulha, Guatemala, 
May 5, 1906, “D. F. C.” 
Three of these Guatemalan japygids have chitinous remains of ar- 
thropods in the alimentary canal. In the rectum of the single speci- 
men taken at Purulha is the head of a dipterous insect, which probably 
is that of a fungous gnat (Mycetophilidae) according to A. Stone, 
of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. In the rectum 
of an adult specimen taken at Cacao, March 27-29, 1906, are the remains 
of some very small, heavily sclerotized insect, the largest piece of which 
appears to be a part of the thorax of a beetle. In another specimen, 
taken at Cacao, March 1906, there are the remains of two arthropods 
in the alimentary canal. In the anterior part of the canal, scattered 
along in the thoracic part, are the legs and the cephalothorax of a beetle 
mite (Oribatoidea) while in the rectum are the remains of an insect 
one piece of which is the last tarsal segment of a leg with two equal 
_ claws and a pulvillus. 
