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sides straight and diverging posteriorly ; lateral grooves indicated by 

 a prominent ridge of darker colour, sparsely punctate and parallel with 

 the lateral border; scapulae blunt; emargination moderate. Dorsum 

 minutely punctate, and thickly studded, especially in the posterior 

 portion, with very short white hairs. Gapitulum : base, a triangle, 

 longer than broad, with wing-like lateral projections hollowed dorso- 

 lateral^ to receive the palps ; porose areas long-oval, rather near 

 together, very close to the posterior border, which is somewhat sinuous ; 

 palps medium, flat, the second article twice as long as the third ; hypo- 

 stome truncate, with parallel sides, 2|2 equidistant files of stout teeth, 9 

 per file. Venter : vulva between coxae IV ; spiracle rather small, trans- 

 verse oval, somewhat pointed dorsally, far from coxae IV ; anal groove 

 long, ill-defined in front but apparently somewhat ogival ; the sides 

 nearly parallel. Legs yellow, slender. Coxae unarmed but with posterior 

 border somewhat blade-like ; coxa I with strong anterior projection em- 

 bracing the basis capituli collar-wise, its posterior edge straight ; coxae 

 II-IV with posterior edge increasingly curved, coxa IV being sub- 

 circular. Tarsi tapering gradually. 



Described from (N. 650) one gorged ? from Dasyurus geoffroyi, 

 Cranbrook, W. Australia, in. 1900, presented by the Hon. N. C. 

 Rothschild. 



Fig. 245,1. 



Fig. 245 B. 



Fig. 246. 



Fig. 245. I. fecialis ? ; A, capitulum and scutum; B, ventral aspect of capitulum with 

 coxae I. (Warburton and Nuttall, 1909, Figs. 1, 2. Sketch by C. W.) 



Fig. 246. /. fecialis, var. aegrifossus ? : capitulum and scutum. (Warburton and 

 Nuttall, 1909, Fig. 3. Sketch by C. W.) 



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