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shorter hairs, the distance between the posterior 3 being only half that of the 
distance between the anterior 3; near the base of the joint there is one hair, 
inserted near the ventral edge and directed obliquely downwards and backwards; 
on the inner side of the joint a little below the middle, there is a row of 7 hairs 
of which the posterior 4 are inserted more closely together than the anterior 4, 
of which the anterior one is twice as long as the others and curved forwards. 
3rd joint with only two dorsal hairs, 4th joint with 4, two dorsally near 
the anterior edge, one smaller on the exterior side and one on the interior 
side, as long as the terminal hair of the 5th joint. 
5th joint narrower than the others, perfectly straight and of uniform width, 
rounded at the top. It has in all about 21 hairs, which increase very slightly 

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Figs. 158—160. Scirus longipalpis nu. sp. 
158. Maxillary palp. 159. Rostrum, ventral view. 160. Epimera. 
in length towards the top, where there are three hairs, of which the dorsal one 
is slightly longer than the median one and the ventral one is only about 1/4 
of the dorsal one; the other hairs are of subequal size except one dorsal near 
the top which is only half as long as the others. 
Mandibles (figs. 161—162) long and narrow, 5 times as long as they are 
wide at the base; only one, rather short hair, inserted almost half as far from 
the anterior as from the posterior end. Chela (fig. 162) with narrow, almost 
straight upper jaw ending in a blunt tooth, behind which the edge is concave; 
lower jaw twice as wide as the upper one, curved in an even curve, ending in 
a blunt tooth, behind which there is another, very low and blunt tooth. 
Rostrum (fig. 156) three times as long as it is wide at the basis. It has 
in all 6 pairs of hairs, of which one pair is inserted marginally far forward, one 
pair also marginally a little behind the middle and the remaining four form 
two converging longitudinal rows in the proximal third. 
