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MR. STANLEY HIRST ON 



Denticles on postero-ventral surface of this leg also very like 

 those of J . lateralis, but stronger, the anterior margin of the 

 ventral surface of the segments of this leg being strongly concave. 

 There is a stout spinule ventrally on each side of the distal end 

 of the first tarsus, close to the origin of the claws. Claws of first 

 leg not very large ; the pulvillus present. Spur on coxa of fii^st 

 leg much longer than in the other known species of the genus. 

 Second and third coxre each with a lobe-like posterior spur. 



Text-figure 11. 



Anci/strojuts (Meristasjtis) calcarahis, sp. n., $. Ventral view. 



There are a number of rather long hairs on the dorsal sniface of 

 the legs ; a pair on the femur of the first leg is the longest, the 

 outer hair being tiie longer of the two. 



Length of body (not including capituhmi) •70— about '94 mm.; 

 its width 'SS-'Gl mm. 



Host: A large Ry'mg-iox (Pteropus S]).); Rook Island, August 

 1913 {A. aS'. Meek), ex Hon. N. 0. Eothschild's coll. 



