BRITISH SPECIES OF PHALANGIDEA OR HARVEST MEN. 205 



General colouring, yellowish brown with richer brown markings, 

 and silvery (sometimes somewhat golden) spots. The form is oval, 

 the eyes are placed at the inner extremities of two somewhat 

 triangular processes extending from the sides of the cephalothorax 

 towards the front and centre where they are raised, with their 

 extremities surmounted by bifid (or sometimes trifid) black or deep 

 brown tubercular prominences or denticulae forming a double crest 

 above the eyes. The lateral margins tf the processes are also 

 studded with similar prominences, as also are the posterior margins 

 of the abdominal segment (which are very distinct) and those of 

 the transverse sutures behind the eyes. 



The falces are dark brown. 



The legs are very long, slender, brown, the genuse darkest, and 

 the extremities of the femora and tibiae palest, giving the legs a 

 somewhat annulated appearance. The femora have a series varying 

 in number, most numerous on the 4th pair, of narrow pale rings 

 near the middle, giving the appearance of small false joints. The 

 legs are furnished thickly with short hairs ; many of these on 

 some of the joints are of the nature of minute denticulse. 



The palpi are long and slender, deep brown in colour, and 

 thickly clothed with prominent hairs whose apices are small round 

 pale knobs. The radial joint is rather less than half the length of 

 the cubital. 



The abdomen is dark yellow-brown above, marked along the 

 centre with a double series of silvery, or pale golden, spots, two on 

 each segment in a transverse line near to each other, though 

 wider apart on the hinder portion of the abdomen. The spots on 

 the anterior segments are often confluent, and sometimes some of 

 the spaces between the abdominal segments are also of a golden 

 hue. The male resembles the female except in being smaller, and 

 having a short strong prominent corneous process at the fore 

 extremity of the first and another at the hinder extremity of the 

 second joint of the falces. 



Although it cannot be considered a common species, this very 

 pretty and delicate little phalangid is by no means unfrequent in 



