( II am Hi.m.i \ : IfYRIOPODA 01 THE AUSTRALIAN REGION. L31 



Legs 1 < > 1 1 j-i and stout. Third joint »>f legs dorsally very conspicuously 

 swollen <>r elevated except proxunally. Tarsus much longer than any other 

 segment, slender, moderately curved. 



The chitinous distal region of the telopodite of gonopoda is flattened from 



side to side; and expanded like (he (ail of a fish, (he distal edge being similarly 

 notched or excavated, curving a little dorsad; (he ehitinous structure is con- 

 tinued proximad as a narrow rim along (he mesal side of (he gonopod. Just 

 pioxmiad of (erminal narrower chi(inous portion there is from the dorsal side 



a low triangular plate projecting dorsad. 



\Yid(h, 2.8 mm. 



358. Prionopeltis dasys, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 4,701. Fijis: Viria, Ruva River (W. M. Mann). 



Brown or in part chocolate colored, the callum and head darker, the keels 

 all yellow and the tip of the cauda somewhat ferruginous. Venter lighter 

 brown. Legs proximally testaceous, distally flavous. Antennae dark brown. 



Head with vertigial sulcus distinct down to level of antennal sockets. 

 Surface densely granular or shagreened, in part rugose. Antennae long and 

 slender. 



Metagonites densely granular or shagreened both above and down the sides. 

 Collum with a median longitudinal sulcus which is not evident over either 

 anterior or posterior border regions. A deep transverse sulcus present from 

 fourth to nineteenth segments, this extending across from keel to keel excepting 

 on the fourth, on which it is abbreviated and on the nineteenth on which it is 

 also short and rather indistinct. Margin of keels smooth, elevated, on the 

 edge hollowed out only about and a little distance caudad of the pore, the 

 non-porigerous keels not hollowed out as in P. keleearti Humbert. 



Pleural keels evident on segments II to V; those on the second and third 

 segments rather vertical than transverse, those of the two others thicker and 

 more nearly longitudinal. Proemea near bases of legs as usual. 



Cauda of anal tergite long, subcylindric, distally rounded, much exceeding 

 the valves. The latter strongly margined, coriarious. 



Length (female), near 43 mm.; width, 7 mm. 



359. Prionopeltis clarus, sp. nov. 



Type— M. C. Z. 4,630, Fijis: Somo Somo. Paratypes — M. C. Z. 

 4,631-4,633, 4,991. Fijis: Somo Somo, Kunibara, Wainganitu (W. M. 

 Mann). Samoa: Apia (V. L. Kellogg). 



Dorsum when in full color deep chocolate, the color extending out on the 

 anterior end of the keels but the remaining portion of the latter fulvous. 



