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anterior border being undefined ; the second segment also punctured 

 and striolate, produced laterally below the level of the coUum and 

 sending forwards a strong angular process beneath it, which projects 

 as far forwards as the anterior margin of the collum ; the rest of the 

 segments (except the anal) with a well-marked transverse circular 

 groove, thr-i anterior piece above ornamented with fine anastomosijig 

 strise which behind become imperceptibl}^ coarser, when the pattern 

 takes the form of a multitude of close-set semilunar pits, laterally and 

 inferiorly this portion is ornamented behind with irregularly branch- 

 ing longitudinal strise ; the transverse groove marked laterally with 

 a series of pits ; the posterior half is a little elevated, longitudinally 

 sulcate at the sides, punctured and obscurely longitudinally striolate 

 above, nearly smooth posteriorly ; ^jot-s conspicuous, all on a level 

 above the middle of the body, in front of the transverse sulcus ; anal 

 sowite punctured and rugulose, a well developed, basally sub-com- 

 pressed, nearly smooth, caudal process; the process nearly continuing 

 the line of the back, usually nearly straight, rarely markedly down 

 curled, never up-curled, projecting far beyond the margin of the 

 valves ; valves punctured convex, border convex above, nearly straight 

 beneath, nearly smooth, strongly compressed, the compressed part 

 above more than half the length of the convex part ; sternite forming 

 distinctly an obtuse angled triangle. 



Legs short and very smooth, each segment furnished beneath with 

 a single distal seta, a single seta above the terminal claw. 

 Number of segments 45 ; length about 80 mm. 

 $ . Slenderer than the 9 ; the distal segment of the legs with 

 adhesory disk throughout its length. ■ 



Copulatory feet ; the median anterior piece very long, tongue-like, 

 projecting below nearly as far as the apex of the lateral pieces, 

 excavated superficially, ending above in two long stout processes which 

 embrace the summits of the lateral portions ; anterior portion, right 

 and left halves, externally convex ; the posterior portion projecting 

 inferiorly far below the anterior, bluntly pointed below with a 

 conspicuous notch on its external border, the notch bounded below by 

 a conspicuous process and passing posteriorly into a wide excavated 

 area ; central (protrusible) portion anteriorly evenly convex, upper 

 half stout, lower half ending in two processes, an upper shorter, 



