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THREE NEW SPECIES OF TROPICAL PHALANGIDA. 



By Nathan Banks. 



The following three new species of daddy-long-legs have 

 been in my possession for some time, and since the collectors 

 are anxious for the names, I present their descriptions. The 

 Liobunum from Mexico is especially interesting since it has a 

 color character not seen in any other species of the genus. 



Liobunum dugesi, n. sp. 



Body pale yellowish, a rather faint vase-shaped mark behind, some- 

 times indistinct; eye-tubercle white, with a median black streak; lateral 

 margins of abdomen black above; trochanters broadly marked with 

 brown in front and behind ; femora brownish, with a narrow black 

 Ime on basal fourth of lower sides, less distinct above on anterior pairs 

 of legs ; rest of legs brown, the tibiae and tarsi nearly black toward 

 the tips ; a black mark on under side of palpus near tip. Body minutely 

 and evenly granulate, the legs with rather more acute granules, and 

 the coxae with a marginal row in front and behind ; venter smooth ; 

 palpi simple, patella spinulate above, the inner apical angle rather 

 tumid, tarsus one and one-half times the length of tibia; femur I about 

 twice as long as width of body. 



Length of body 6 mm., femur I, 8 mm. 



Many specimens from Puebla, Mexico, kindly sent me by 

 the veteran Mexican entomologist, Dr. A. Duges, of Guana- 

 juato. Readily known from other Mexican species of the 

 genus by the black lines under the femora. 



Scotolemon flavipes, n. sp. 



Body reddish yellow ; legs, mandibles, and palpi pale yellow. Cephalo- 

 thorax slightly broader than long, as broad in front as behind, eye- 

 tubercle (fig. 2) occupying one-third of its width, rounded above; sur- 

 face of cephalothorax roughened and granulate. Abdomen more than 

 twice as long as the cephalothorax and nearly twice as wide in its broad- 

 est part, high and convex above, segmentation indistinct on the basal 

 part, where there are about ten transverse rows of granules, each tipped 

 by a short stiff bristle, somewhat curved backwards; segmented part of 

 dorsum with two rows of granules and bristles to each segment. 

 Venter with two rows of erect bristles on each segment, each from a 

 small granule. Coxae I and II with a row of granules on the anterior 

 side. III on both sides, and IV on the posterior edge. Legs very 

 slender, with granules on femora, patellae, and tibiae; metatarsi without 

 false articulations. Femur II a little longer than the width of the 

 cephalothorax ; patella II fully one-half as long as tibia II, metatarsus 



