AMBLYl'YGI. 



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Order AMBLYPYGI. 



Carapace much wider than long, transversely reniform, with 

 convex anterior and lateral and concave posterior border ; furn- 

 ished in front with a pair of median eyes, and a cluster of lateral 

 eyes on each side. Sternal area broad, subcircular ; membranous, 



Fig. 40. Phrynichus pkipsoni, rf . 



a, mandible ; /, trochanter ; i, femur ; e, tibia ; d, hand ; c, claw of chela : 

 j, femur ; k, patella ; h, tibia ; g, protarsus ; /, tarsus of leg. 



but strengthened with four median sclerites, the anterior 

 (labium or prosternum) long and pointed, projecting between the 

 bases of the chelae, the posterior (metasternum) lodged between the 

 coxae of the 4th pair of legs. Coxae of chelce and leys arranged 

 radially round the sternum, those of the 2nd and 3rd pairs widely 

 separated. Cbelse prehensile, subchelate, closing in a horizontal 

 plane, their basal segments freely articulated to the membrane at 

 the sides of the anterior sternal sclerite (prosternum, labium); 

 3rd (femur) and 4th (tibia) segments long and strong, strongly 

 spined ; 5th segment (hand) small, spined above and below ; 6th 

 segment (finger) hairy, short, and ending in a long smooth claw, 



