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posteriorly and terminating in an enlarged denticle, the latter 

 strong and complete, terminating in front with a rounded 

 tubercle and behind with an acute tooth in the first three 

 segments ; these three segments granular and obsoletely cari- 

 nate laterally ; the inferior and infero-lateral keels entirely 

 absent on segments 1-4, which are smooth and polished, the 

 fourth being merely weakly granular beneath ; the fifth 

 segment deeply excavated above and widely so behind, with 

 elevated granular lateral edges, the lateral surface weakly 

 granular, the lower surface thickly and coarsely granular, 

 convex and not carinate, the lateral keels merely represented 

 by a series of few coarser granules behind ; vesicle depressed, 

 narrower than the fifth segment, carinate at the side, coarsely 

 serially but not closely granular below ; a median series of 

 small spiniform granules beneath the aculeus, the posterior 

 of these the largest ; the aculeus lightly curved from the 

 base. 



Palpi moderately robust ; the humerus with its upper sur- 

 face smooth, the anterior and posterior keels weak and weakly 

 granular, the anterior surface also very feebly granular and 

 defined below by a weakly granular keel ; hrachium smooth 

 and rounded above and behind, its anterior surface defined by 

 a keel above and below ; manus wider than the brachium, 

 smooth, rounded, not carinate, with scarcely even a trace of 

 keel to define the hand-back ; the length of the hand-back 

 greater than the width of the hand, but less than the length 

 of the movable digit; digits slender, moderately elongate. 



Legs slender, elongate, smooth, with two spurs at the base 

 of the feet and the distal end of the posterior surface produced 

 into a short acute process, just in front of which there is a 

 long series of short minute spinules. 



Pectines moderately long, furnished with 10-11 teeth. 



Measuremeyits in millimetres. — Total length 26'5, of cara- 

 pace 4, of tail 16, width of first caudal segment 2*8, of fourth 

 2"6 ; length of segments 1 -h 2 3 ; width of the vesicle 2, 

 width of brachium 1*3, of hand 2 ; length of hand-back 2"5, 

 of movable digit 3'5. 



hoc. British Guiana {W. L. Sclater). 



Two adult female specimens. 



Heterochactas, gen. nov. 

 (PI. V. fig. 6,6 a.) 



The anterior border of the carapace rather deeply and 

 abruptly emarginate in the middle line, with its lateral 

 portions rounded and the anterior lateral eye scarcely at all 



