204 BRITISH SPECIES OF PHALANGIDEA OR HARVEST MEN. 



The upper side of the abdomen is of a somewhat corneous 

 nature, and has transverse rows of very minute tubercles or 

 granulations, chiefly corresponding with the posterior margins of 

 the different segments. 



The ceplialothorax is also granulose and has a notch in the 

 middle of the fore margin of the caput. 



The eye-eminence is near the anterior side of the caput. and has 

 no regular crest, but only some very small tubercles. 



The legs are not very long. They are black or dark brown with 

 rather paler metatarsi and tarsi. Some of the joints are tolerably 

 strong, especially of the first pair. They are furnished sparingly 

 with very fine short hairs, and the bases of the femora are narrowly 

 annulated with yellowish. 



The fakes are small. Those of the male have a strong, blunt 

 process at the extremity of the first joint projecting forward over the 

 second joint. The palpi are slender, as long, or nearly so, as the 

 body. The digital joint does not much exceed half the length of 

 the radial, and has no terminal claw. They are furnished with 

 numerous fine but claviform hairs. 



Excepting in the structure of the falces, the sexes do not differ 

 much. 



In one female in my possession the ovipositor was extended, and 

 was as long or longer than the whole body. 



This is an abundant species but rather sluggish among moss, at 

 the roots of herbage, among dead sticks and other detritus in hedges 

 and woods, as well as under stones and logs, and may be found at all 

 seasons, even during the depth of winter. I have met with it in 

 many parts of England, and in numerous localities in Dorsetshire. 

 It has also been sent to me from Ireland by Mr. G. H. Carpenter. 



NEMASTOMA CHRYSOMELAS. 

 Phalangium clirysomelas, Hermann (1804). 

 Nemastoma chrysomelas, Meade (1855), Simon (1879). 



PI. E, fig. 27. 

 Female, length 1 J to 1| lines ; male, 1 line. 



