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nearly so. The fore-laterals are, perhaps, slightly the largest of 

 the eight, and the fore-centrals smallest. These last are almost 

 contiguous to each other, and each is less than half a diameter 

 from the fore-lateral next to it. Thus the lateral pairs and the 

 fore-centrals form a regular and continuous semi-circle. 



Legs moderate and sub-equal in length and moderately strong, 

 i, 4, 2, 3 furnished with hairs, no spines, only an erect bristle 

 on the outer side near the hinder extremity of the tibiae, another 

 at the fore end of the genual joints, and a longer one on the 

 inner side of the hinder extremity of the femora of the fourth 

 pair. The tarsi and meta-tarsi of this pair are of equal length. 

 The colour of the legs is a pale dull yellowish tinged with 

 olive. 



Palpi moderate in length, similar in colour to the legs, cubital 

 joints short, cylindrical, radial longer and much stronger, 

 gradually and greatly widening to the anterior extremity, the 

 inner side of which is produced into a strong, tapering, curved 

 pointed apophysis directed outward, and whose termination 

 appears to be bent downwards so as to make it difficult to see its 

 real form ; the outer side of this joint is also somewhat pro- 

 duced, and has a marginal row of bristles, digital joint, short, 

 broad, oval ; palpal organs rather complex, with two small black 

 prominent corneous points at their fore extremity, one sharp- 

 pointed, the other truncated, and a curved obtusely-pointed 

 process at their base on the outer side. 



Fakes rather long, moderately strong, slightly divergent, 

 tapering, similar to the legs in colour. 



Maxilla short, strong, broader at the extremity than in the 

 middle, strongly inclined to the labium, obliquely truncated 

 both on tlie inner and outer sides. Similar in colour to the 

 cephalothorax. 



Labium broader than high, truncate at the apex, where it is 

 narrower than at the base, suffused with blackish, like the 

 sternum. 



Sternum large, shield-shaped, convex, nearly as broad as long, 

 its posterior extremity a little produced, and bending upwards 



