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equal to their length, and midway between the centre and the lateral 

 border ; lateral grooves very fine, without external raised area ; puncta- 

 tions fine, unequal, fewer in the median field, abundant external to the 

 lateral grooves ; surface glabrous, glossy. Dorsum covered by stiff 

 whitish hairs, which are absent just behind the scutum and in three 

 longitudinal grooves; of these the laterals extend along the whole body- 

 length ; the median groove is shorter. Venter covered by similar hairs 

 posterior to the vulva and coxae ; no hairs in the genital grooves and 

 over the greater part of the space bounded by the anal grooves ; vulva 

 facing the second intercoxal space ; anal grooves parallel, wide apart, 

 relatively short, curving in front of the anus ; spiracles whitish, 

 subcircular. Capitulum short (07 mm.) ; base (+ article 1 of palps 

 which are fused with it) twice as broad as long, without cornua; 

 porose areas deep, oval, considerably broader than long, almost con- 

 tiguous; no distinct auriculae. Hypostome narrow, with parallel 

 borders, 2 | 2, 7-8 stout teeth per file, the median files much separated ; 

 chelicerae (?) ; palps relatively short and broad, article 1 very broad, 



Fig. 250. J. vestitus ?: capitulum and scutum. (Neumann, 1908, Fig. 2.) 



