198 BRITISH SPECIES OF PHALANGIDEA OR HARVEST 



one example of the male it was nearly double the length of the 

 middle spine. 



The eye-eminence is of moderate size, armed with two rows (near 

 to each other) of strongish, rather blunt-pointed, spines, or denticulae. 

 of which the second from the anterior end is sometimes longer than 

 the rest. 



The legs are short, of a light yellowish brown colour, annulated 

 with slightly reddish brown, 2, 4, 3, 1, rather slender, furnished 

 with hairs only, except at the fore extremity, on the upper side, of 

 the genuse and femora, where there are two blunt denticulse. 



The palpi are similar in colours to the legs. The humeral, 

 cubital, and radial joints have each of them a small production, or 

 apophysis, clothed with hairs, at the inner extremity, that on the 

 cubital joint being the strongest. These apophyses appear to be 

 stronger in the female than in the male. The outer side, rather in 

 front, of the humeral joint, is armed with a row of 5 strong 

 denticulae not all quite equal in length. 



The abdomen is smooth, without bristles, spines, or denticulae. 



This species may easily be distinguished from the two preceding 

 by the greater length and strength of the armature of the caput, 

 and eye-eminence, and by the armature and other parts of the 

 structure of the palpi. It is also smaller though very similar in 

 colour to 0. tridens C. L. Koch. 



The male, besides being smaller than the female and darker in 

 colour, differs in the greater strength of the 3 anterior spines and 

 those on the eye-eminence. 



I have frequently met with this very distinct little phalangid, 

 though not in any abundance, among moss and leaves and at roots of 

 herbage in woods at Bloxworth in October and November for many 

 years past, but, excepting the locality given by Mr. Meade North 

 Wales have not received it from any other part of Great Britain. 



OLIGOLOPHUS MEADII sp. n. 



PL D, fig. 21, 22. 

 Female, length, If lines ; male, 1 line. 



