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transverse pores in front the anterior crest, where the 2nd bristle of the median 
longitudinal row is inserted. 
The hairs (fig. 139) are more or less leaf-shaped, lanceolate and very 
numerous, arranged as fig. 138 shows. 
Ventral side (fig. 140), Sternal shield with distinct, polygonal tex- 
ture and two pairs of narrow pores, one pair near the anterior margin on the 
inner side of the anterior pair of hairs, the other pair about halfway between 
the 2nd and 3rd pair of hairs. 
The sternal shield is pentagonal, longer than the width between coxe II, 
with concave posterior margin, extending to the middle of coxe III. It is 

Figs. 138—140. Cosmolelaps communis n. sp. 2 
38. Dorsal view. 139. Dorsal hair. 140. Ventral side. 
fused with the endopodial shields of legs H, and contiguous with the anterior 
ends of the endopodial shields of legs III which are free, as are also those of 
legs IV. 
The metasternal hairs are inserted on a level between coxe III and IV 
and not surrounded by any metasternal shield. 
The geniti-ventral shield is very remarkable in so far that is has 
numerous, fine lines, running more transversally near the posterior end but 
further forwards longitudinally, forming elongated, polygonal areas, This is a 
feature which distinguishes the genus Le/aspis, but not Cosmolelaps. The 
present species can, however, not be referred to L@/asfzs, because the geniti- 
ventral shield is not contiguous with the anal shield. The geniti-ventral shield 
almost twice as long as its greatest width, projecting almost to the middle of 
cox III, its anterior half being tongue-shaped, with almost paralell sides, pos- 
