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Scutum narrow, barely covering more than half the width of the dorsum, 

 bearing on the pseudoscutum more clearly marked cervical grooves, 

 but similar lateral grooves and similar punctations to those of £ ; over 

 the rest of the dorsum the punctations are coarser, distant. A deep 

 marginal groove ; marginal fold glabrous. Venter : plates highly 

 chitinised, well defined, maroon ; sexual orifice facing the anterior border 

 of coxae III ; pregenital plate rectangular, twice as long as broad, with 

 rounded angles ; median plate elongate, relatively narrow ; anal and 

 adanal plates elongate, not attaining the posterior border. Spiracles 

 large, oval, maroon. Scattered hairs over the whole surface, shorter on 

 the plates. Capitulum 0'7 mm. long; dorsal base slightly broader than 

 long, similar to that of % (Fig. 269), the porose areas replaced by a not 

 clearly defined roughened surface, the lateral points but slightly marked. 

 Chelicera ? Hypostome and palps similar to those of $ . Legs similar 

 to those of % , the coxal spurs slightly weaker. 



Female (unfed) : Body oblong, sides parallel, 3'8 x l - 9 mm., rounded 

 behind, yellowish white, scutum, capitulum and legs brown. Scutum 

 oval, extending beyond the middle of the back, 1*8 x 1*2 mm. (emargina- 

 tion almost absent), glossy, convex, maroon, glabrous ; cervical grooves 

 slightly marked ; lateral grooves distinct, straight ; punctations many, 

 equal, very fine. Dorsum with a deep marginal groove, which limits a 

 thick prominent fold ; numerous ruddy hairs. Venter : vulva facing 

 coxae III ; sexual grooves broad, straight, divergent ; anal ring maroon, 

 anus posterior ; anal grooves slightly convergent behind ; spiracles 

 large, slightly elongate in the ventro-dorsal direction, whitish peri- 



Fig. 268. 



Fig. 269. 



Fig. 268. I. loricatus s : dorsal and ventral aspects. (Neumann, 1899, Figs. 15, 16.) 

 Fig. 269. I.- loricatus ? : capitulum, dorsal aspect. (Neumann, 1899, Fig. 17.) 



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