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The Cephalon is stout, and also provided anteriorly with a short but stout spur on 

 each side, and between these is the stout Ocular tubercle. This is short, blunt, and 

 rounded, but bears a small pointed tubercle at the apex. Of the four well-developed 

 eyes, the anterior pair are the larger. 



The Abdomen is rather long and cylindrical, directed upwards, but not so much so 

 as in Professor BOUVIER'S specimens. Very small setas occur on the abdomen and all 

 the spurs of the cephalon and lateral processes. 



The length of the body is 17 mm., and its breadth 1'3. 



The Proboscis is large, pyriform, rather more than half the length of the body. 



The Chelifori are as is usual with the members of this genus ; the scape is short, 

 slightly curved, with but few minute setae, and those distally. The chela is reduced to 

 a mere knob, with but traces of the dactyli. 



The Palps are eight-jointed and rise laterally to the proboscis. The first joint is 

 short and stout ; the second and fourth are subequal and about three times as long, the 

 latter bearing a few setae ventrally. The third joint is quite small, with two or three 

 setae dorsally. The four terminal joints are all small, and differ but little in size; 

 however, the last three progressively increase in length, the terminal one being distinctly 

 the longest and rather irregular in shape ; it is richly supplied with short stiff setae 

 ventrally and distally, to a less extent dorsally. The other joints are enlarged a little 

 ventrally, and carry a tuft of short stiff setae. 



The Oviger is ten-jointed, short, with all the joints small. The first is short and 

 stout; the second is much longer and more slender; the third, shorter than the pre- 

 ceding one ; the fourth and fifth are subequal, slightly curved, and the longest of the 

 appendage, the proportions of the third to these being 3, 4, 4. The sixth is small, 

 the seventh a little longer and more slender ; the remainder graduate to a very small 

 terminal joint. Very few setae are to be found on the entire appendage, and the 

 denticulate spines are also in very small numbers (l, 2, 1, 2). They consist of a 

 slightly curved shaft with the flattened blade cut into nine very closely set teeth. On 

 the sixth joint there are two spines, and another on the seventh, which look as if they 

 were much-worn specimens of the denticulate spines. This would increase the formula 

 to 2, 2, 2, 1, 2. 



The Legs attain a length of 6 mm. The first coxa is stout, with two dorsal spines, 

 as before stated ; the second is longer, slender, but enlarged distally, not as long as the 

 other two together. The proportions of the three following joints are as 6, 6, 5. The 

 tarsus is very short ; the propodus is curved and bears a stout terminal claw and two 

 very well-developed auxiliaries. The entire limb is covered with short and rather stiff 

 setae. The tarsus sometimes bears a stout spine ventrally. The propodus has four 

 stout spines ventrally and proximally, the remainder of the ventral surface being 

 occupied by a band of stout setae. The difference between these and the four proximal 

 spines is not so sharply marked as in some species. The femora bear a stout tubercle 

 dorsally and distally. 



(ROY. soc. EBIN. TRAXS., VOL. XLVI., 178.) 



