FROM THE SOCIETY S GARDENS. 



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Male Copiilatory Apparatus. — Basal plate : Rather long, narrow, 

 of uniform thinness, the lateral margins indistinct, and the colour 

 dull greyish. Ifesosome: Attached to the posterior margin of 

 the basal plate is a large, broad, trowel-shaped plate — the meso- 

 some. When the apparatus is withdrawn, as shown in the figure, 

 the parameres, slender rods shorter than the mesosome, lie dorsallj 



Text-fiwre 26. 



Pen 



Lijpenms jejunus. Mule copulatoi-y apparatui?, x 130. 

 BF. basal plate. P. pavaraere. MP. eiidomeral plate. Pen. penis. 



and inside the lateral margins of the mesosoroal plate. "When the 

 apparatus is in action, however, the base of the mesosome swells 

 up and broadens out, carrying the parameres with it, so that the 

 latter come to lie latei'ally in their normal position. The penis is 

 a perfectly straight elongate tube, with an aperture at its tip and 

 with a forked base. 



LlPELTRUS HETEROGRAMMICUS N. (5, p. 220). 



Plenty of material of this minute species was sent, collected on 

 Caccahis chukar Gray. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1916, No. XLYII. ^4:7 



