184 BRITISH SPECIES OF THALANGIDEA OR HARVEST MEN. 



PL C, fig. 11, 12. 



Female adult, 3 to 3J lines, male 2 to 2J. 



The female is of a dull greyish yellow-brown or clay colour, 

 mottled with a deeper hue and spotted with whitish. 



The abdomen is smooth and destitute of spines or tubercles ; it 

 has the normal dorsal band darker than the rest, at times slightly 

 reddish brown, tolerably, sometimes very distinctly, marked. This 

 band is broad, slightly tapering, a little angulated on the sides, 

 truncated at the third segment from the hinder extremity or some- 

 times thence continued indistinctly to the first segment ; it has 

 occasionally a narrow pale marginal line on each side and is marked 

 with numerous pale whitish spots arranged roughly in transverse 

 lines. The underside of the abdomen, and the genital plate, are 

 pale whitish. 



The eye-eminence is large, about equal in length and breadth, 

 deeply channelled longitudinally at the top, where it has two rows 

 of not very large teeth or sharp spinous tubercles, eight to ten 

 on each side. 



The ceplialothorax has a few very small denticulte. Two or 

 three of these are placed in an irregular group on each side of the 

 median line in front of the eye-eminence, and occasionally there is 

 one in the centre nearer the fore margin of the caput. 



Falces rather long but not very strong. 



Palpi moderate in length ; the cubital joint has its inner 

 extremity produced into a projection or apophysis about half the 

 length of the joint and directed forwards ; the same part of the 

 radial joint is also enlarged or very slightly produced. The 

 anterior edge of the humeral joint is armed with strongish pointed 

 tubercles of different sizes, each ending with a small sharp spine 

 and irregularly disposed along the joint. 



There are a few very minute spines of the same nature beneath 

 the radial joints. 



The leys are rather long and slender, 2, 4, 1, 3, and the femora 

 are furnished with minute dcnticulae, they are of a dull pale brownish 

 yellow ; the extremity of the tarsi and the tarsal claw are black. 



