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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Fig. 



— Scotolemon flaiipes: 

 tubercle and palpus. 



II longer than tibia II, tarsus II as long as metatarsus II. Leg IV 

 is a little shorter than II. Leg I is much shorter than II, and in similar 

 proportions, except that the tarsus is not as long as the metatarsus; 



all legs with many short fine hairs ; 

 tarsus I of 4 joints, tarsus II of 

 6 joints, tarsus IV of 4 joints. Palpi 

 (fig. 2) of moderate length; a short 

 spine below trochanter; two near 

 base of femur and two toward tip ; 

 two on tibia, rather widely separate, 

 and two on tarsus ; claw nearly as 

 long as tarsus. Basal joint of man- 

 dibles somewhat gibbous above. 

 Length of body 2 mrn. 



Near Havana, Cuba (C. F. 



Baker). 



Scotolemon pictipes, n. sp. 



Cephalothorax yellowish, mar- 

 ^y^ morate with black : abdomen dark 

 brown; palpi mostly black, heav- 

 ily mottled with pale in form of 

 rounded spots, most prominent above; legs blackish, finely marmorate 

 with pale ; I with tip of femur and the tarsus pale, II with tip of 

 femur pale, III with tip of femur, 

 patella, and tibia pale, IV with tip 

 of all joints pale, and rather broadly 

 so. Cephalothorax broader than 

 long, broader in front than behind; 

 eye-tubercle (fig. 3) in middle, very 

 broad, above with a long procurved 

 spine ; surface roughened. Abdomen 

 two and one-half times as long 

 as cephalothorax, high and convex 

 above, but scarcely twice as wide as 

 cephalothorax ; basal part of dorsum 

 granulate, each granule tipped by 

 a short bristle, each segment on 

 apical part with a row of granules 

 tipped by bristles. Coxae granulate ; 

 ventral segments each with a row 

 of large granules, tipped by bristles. 

 Legs with fine hairs; leg IV rather 

 longer and heavier than II, patella 



less than one-half as long as tibia, and the tarsus much shorter than 

 metatarsus, except in leg II, where it is about as long. Tarsi I, III, 

 and IV with four joints, II with seven joints, the basal always the 



Fig. 3. 



-Scotolemon pictipes: 

 and eye tubercle. 



Palpus 



