156 MR T. V. HODGSON ON THE 



The length of the body is very nearly 6 mm., and its width 3 mm. ; the abdomen takes 

 up 1*2 mm. 



The Proboscis is cylindrical, and is thinly covered with small setae ; the extremity 

 is truncated. 



The Chelifori are strongly developed. The scape is single-jointed and 2'3 mm. long ; 

 it is covered with small setae and a row of three or four spinous ones along the mid-dorsal 

 surface, and a distal fringe of the same kind. The chelae are about as long as the scape, 

 the dactyli being longer than the palm, which is covered with very short setae well on 

 to the base of the immovable finger. Both fingers are much curved at the tips and 

 bent on their inner margins, with numerous closely-set, slender teeth not of uniform size. 



The Palps arise at the side of the proboscis, and comprise the normal five joints. 

 The first is small and stout ; the second is the longest, but only by a very little, the 

 proportions between it and the remaining joints being 8, 7 '3, 4, 4. The second joint 

 bears a few setae scattered along it, and two or three distinctly spinous ones, and a 

 distal fringe of stout setae. The third joint is more plentifully supplied with setae, 

 more uniformly distributed ; the distal fringe is well developed ventrally. The two 

 following joints are still more richly supplied on the ventral surface, but not to the 

 same extent dorsally. 



The Ovigers arise in the angle between the first lateral process and the cephalon, 

 the body-process being distinctly visible dorsally. Of the ten joints, the first two are 

 very small and stout ; the third is as long as the two together. The fourth and fifth 

 are almost subequal, the fifth being a very little the longer ; the former is stout, the 

 latter more slender and covered on its outer margin with short stiff setae ; the sixth is 

 comparatively long, just exceeding two-thirds the length of the fifth, and is similarly 

 setose. The four terminal joints differ but little in size ; the third is perhaps the 

 smallest; the dorsal surface of all is well provided with rather long setae, and the 

 terminal claw carries about a dozen teeth. The denticulate spines are not numerous 

 (9, 8, 6, 9). They are much worn, as are also the teeth on the terminal claw, but 

 exhibit a tapering shaft with three strongly developed lateral teeth and probably two 

 more delicate ones. 



The Legs attain a length of 20 mm. Of the three coxae, the second is not so long 

 as the other two together ; the proportions of the remaining joints are as 8, 11, 10, 4'5, 3. 

 The terminal claw is long and slender, and the auxiliaries are extremely minute. 

 The entire limb is setose. The setae on the 00x33 are scanty dorsally, being limited to 

 a poorly developed fringe on the first, and a lateral row on the second ; but the ventral 

 surface of the second and more particularly the third are covered with short stiff setee 

 and distinct distal fringes. The femur is irregularly clothed with rather long setae 

 dorsally, and a prominent distal fringe ; ventrally the seta) are quite small. A similar 

 arrangement holds good on the two tibiae, but there is in addition a lateral row of stout 

 spinous setae situated at rather long intervals. The distal fringe of the first tibia is 

 inconspicuous but for one stout spine ventro-laterally, and on the second tibia it is 



(HOY. soc. EDIN. TRANS., VOL. XLVI., 176.) 



