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Last ventral plate conspicuously narrowed caudad. Sides straight 

 or nearly so. Caudal margin nearly straight or but slightly incurved, 

 with the corners a little rounded. 



First 19 pairs of legs with a tarsal spine. All legs, including also the 

 anal, with spines at base of claws, those of claw of last pair very small. 



Coxopleurae but slightly extended at caudomesal corner, the very 

 short process distally rounded and bearing 3 points or spines. A 

 single small spine laterad of process on caudal margin. 



Anal legs short. The prefemur twice as long as greatest thickness 

 or very nearly so. Prefemur bearing ventrally an ectal row of 2 spi- 

 nules, a submedian one of 3 and an inner or mesal one of 2; dorso- 

 mesally a series of 3 spinules ; the corner process at distal end bearing 

 2 or 3 spinules. Other articles unarmed. The claw with small fine 

 spines at base. 



Length, 22-23 mm. 



Locality. — India: Jeypore (Novembers, 1906). Two speci- 

 mens. 



The separation of this species from the two previously de- 

 scribed may be made as follows : 



o. The last dorsal plate with a distinct and complete median longi- 

 tudinal sulcus. 



b. Claw of anal legs without basal spines, dorsal plates from 

 seventeenth to nineteenth caudad margined ; antennae with 



19 articles T. mirabilis ( Porat) 



hb. Claw of anal legs with distinct basal spines; only the twen- 

 ty-first dorsal plate margined; antennae i8-jointed, 



T. indiae sp. nov. 

 aa. The last dorsal plate without a median longitudinal sulcus. 



Antennae 17-jointed; only the twenty-first dorsal plate mar- 

 gined; claw of anal legs with basal spines.... T. afer (Meinert) 



GEOPHILOIDEA. 



Mecistocephaudae. 



IG. Mecistocephalus punctifrons Newport. 



Localities. — Java: liatavia. Upper Burma. 

 This is proving to be a common form in the warmer parts 

 of both hemispheres. 



Oryidae. 

 17. Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport). 

 Locality. — Java : Buitzenzorg. 



Common in the warmer parts of America as well as through- 

 out the East. 



