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specimen of it, I could not tell that it was identical with 

 roijlei. Having now examined the large nnnamed matei'ial 

 from Ceylon and India, I find that the <$ S agi'ce closely 

 with Westwood's ty[)e of roylei, while the ? ? correspond 

 eciually closely with Spciser's co-type of chlamydophora ; I 

 am therefore convinced that the two species are identical. 



The three lings on the tib'ue are often indistinct on the 

 dorsal side, but quite distinct on the ventral. In 190S 

 (/. c) I expressed doubt as to whether the dark-pigniciited 

 eyes are composed of one or more ocelli. I have now 

 mounted the head of a specimen in balsam, but even so the 

 number of facets is liard to determine owing to the opacity 

 of the dark pigment beneath ; but in this specimen, at any 

 rate, there are certainly at le:ist two facets in each eye*. 



In the ($ abdomen the bristles extend in unbroken series 

 across the hind margins of tergites 2, 3, 4, and o. In the 

 ty[)e and in some of the new specimens they form a similar 

 unbroken series on the hind margin of tlie sixth (i. e. pen- 

 idtimate) segment ; but in other specimens the series is 

 lather \videly interrupted in the middle of this segment, 

 while in some others (intermediates) the bristles become 

 short and scanty in the middle part, but are not altogether 

 absent. Speiser, in his description of chlaiaydophoru (^ , 

 refers to sternites 2 and 3 as " auf der Flache beborstet.^' 

 In several specimens which I have examined closely sternite 2 

 has scattered short bristles on its surface, but sternite 3 is 

 nearly bare, having only an irregular transverse series of 

 very short bristles a little behind the middle ; in this 

 sternite also the bristles on the hind margin are very short 

 and set far apart, only the 3 or 4 middle ones being rather 

 longer. In other ways the abdomens of the ^ (^ from 

 Ceylon and India correspond with Speiser's description of 

 chlamydophora. 



The ? ABDOMEN (PI. XII. figs. 16, 17) is, as justly re- 

 marked by Speiser, characterized by the great length of the 

 basal segment, both dorsally and ventrally. Dorsallv, the 

 long basal teryite is divided longitudinally into two parts by 



* Since writino: the above, I have remarked certain particulars in 

 which C. roylei differs from all typical species of Cyclopodia with which 

 I am acquainted. This is notably the case in the form of the head. 

 Although C. royl'i has pigmented eyes of more than one facet, yet the 

 head is strongly arched dorsally and conipreased laterally, as in Penicil- 

 lidia and Nyderibia ; while in C. sykesi and its allies, and in C. ferrarii, 

 the head is broad and flattened dorsally, the compression being in the 

 horizontal, not in the vertical, plane. This and some other points make 

 me feel some doubt as to the tinal generic position of C. roylei. Possibly 

 a new genus may be needed for its reception. 



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