180 BRITISH SPECIES OP PHALANGIDEA OR HARVEST MEN, 



surface ; the angles, however, are not so sharp nor so well defined, 

 though more numerous, than in P. opilio ; and it has, besides 

 numerous small whitish points or spots generally more or less 

 well defined upon it, a series of curvi-angular blackish or dusky 

 brown transverse stripes, corresponding with the abdominal 

 segments, which last are also marked by marginal rows of minute 

 denticulse. 



The armature of the cephalothorax is very similar to that of 

 P. opilio, but less strong ; and whereas in some examples of this 

 latter I have occasionally found a minute denticule in the bare 

 space between the two groups of stronger spines or denticulse in 

 front of the eye-eminence, I have never seen this in the present 

 species. The eye-eminence is small not so large as in P. opilio 

 and the teeth on its crest are also fewer in number and less strong. 

 The space between the fore-margin of the caput and the base of 

 the falces is devoid of the two prominent teeth characteristic of 

 P. opilio. 



The legs (2, 4, 1, 3) are long, armed as in P. opilio, but not so 

 strongly or conspicuously. They are of a yellowish white colour more 

 or less distinctly annulated with yellowish brown. Falces small, 

 yellowish white mottled with a deeper hue. Palpi moderately long, 

 yellowish white marked with brown, terminating with a simple 

 claw. Genital plate large, slightly tapering but widened at its 

 fore extremity, where it is rounded. The ovipositor of the female 

 is of great length, cylindrical, and bifid at its end; when fully 

 protruded about half of its length from the extremity is thickly 

 annulated by a double series of curvi-angular red-brown distinctly 

 defined markings. PI. A, fig. 6&. 



The male is shorter and broader in form than the female. The 

 palpi and falces are stronger, and the armature of the legs is 

 stronger, as also is that on the margins of the abdominal segments. 

 The whole of this sex is of a more uni-colorous hue than the 

 female, being of a general more or less deep yellow-brown colour, 

 palest underneath, and the dark markings on the coxae of the legs 

 are distinct though not so large. 



