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maroon-brown. Scutum convex, glossy, glabrous, marginal fold broader 

 posteriorly than on the sides ; cervical grooves narrow, superficial, 

 divergent, extending to about the middle of the body-length ; numerous 

 punctations, small, unequal, regularly distributed. Venter: genital 

 pore broad, between coxae III. Pregenital plate long, triangular; 

 median plate much longer than broad, with sparse, shallow punctations ; 

 anal plate oblong, sides parallel, longer than wide, very finely punctate ; 

 adanal plates longer than broad, sides parallel ; no hairs. Spiracles 

 circular. Capitulum short (0 - 5 mm.); with trapezoid base, broader 

 anteriorly and broader than long, no cornua, posterior angles pro- 

 truding on ventral surface, separated by a similar median protuberance. 

 Chelicera thick, 135 /j, long (dorsal process with two stout, suc- 

 cessive teeth, the posterior stouter; external article with three teeth, 

 the anterior small, the posterior very stout). Hypostome broad, the 

 teeth fused on each half in four transverse ridges of three or four 

 denticles, followed by a row of four or five teeth and on each side by 

 a very stout tooth. Palps short, articles 2 and 3 of about the same 

 length. Legs of medium length, brick-red. Coxa I with internal spur 

 almost obsolete, coxae II— III unarmed but trenchant, coxa IV also 

 trenchant but with a slight postero-external spur. Tarsi of medium 

 length, tapering gradually. 





Fig. 197. /. rubicundus S : venter and hypostome. (Neumann, 1904, Fig. 2.) 



