I. hmatus 



227 



glabrous ; cervical grooves faintly marked, extending two-thirds the 

 length ; lateral grooves indicated by a scarcely visible linear ridge ; 

 punctations very fine, numerous, widely separated. Dorsum covered 

 by fairly numerous short hairs ; no trace of a marginal groove. 

 Venter with similar hairs, vulva between coxae IV ; anal groove horse- 

 shoe-shaped ; spiracles, sub-circular, brownish, nearer to the vulva than 

 to the anus. Capitulum long (mutilated in the type, but about 0"94 

 mm. long) ; basis capituli triangular, with slight cornua ; porose areas 

 medium, oval, longer than broad, the interval equal to their length, a 

 slightly salient ridge running externally to them ; auricula forming a 

 pointed retrograde process ; digit ? hypostome ? Palps 084 mm. long, 

 narrow, cultriform, article 2 slightly longer than 3. Legs slender, long 

 (pair 4 about 2 - o mm. long) ; coxa I bears two sharp spurs, divergent, 

 separated, the inner longer ; a shorter spur at the postero-external angle 

 of coxae II— III, very short on coxa IV ; tarsi long, tapering obliquely, 

 pair 1 long and slender ; pad almost as long as the claws. 



Pig. 222. Fig. 223. 



Figs. 222, 223. J. lunatus ? : dorsum and venter. (Neumann, 1907, Figs. 1 and 2.) 



Description based on 1 $ from Hallomys audeberti Jent. (Muridae), 

 Madagascar (Leyden Natural Hist. Museum). 



