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27. Chelifer meinertii, sp. n. (Plate XXX. figs. 18 a-g.) 



Female. 



CephalotJiorax. — Two rather indistinct ocular spots. The cephalothorax, which is 

 as long as broad, has a peculiar shape, as it is almost of equal breadth behind the 

 median groove, but in front distinctly attenuated towards the front margin; two 

 fairly prominent and deep, almost straight transverse grooves are found. The 

 integument is strongly granular, with prominent, either rounded or conically pointed 

 granules everywhere except on the two white spots of the second thoracic tergite, and 

 it is provided with a number of short, fairly distinctly clavate hairs. 



Abdomen (PI. XXX. figs. 18 a-b, g). — The abdomen is obovate in shape, and is, 

 in this female, which is distended with eggs, almost as wide as long. The distance 

 between the seventh and eighth sclerites, for instance, is, in this specimen, longer than 

 the sclerites, and the distance between the two lateral parts only slightly narrower 

 than each half. All the tergites except the last are longitudinally divided by a broad 

 band ; their sclerites are distinctly granular. The hairs, which anteriorly are short 

 and distinctly clavate, but posteriorly longer and only moderately so (figs. 18 a-b), are 

 found on the median tergites numbering 10-12 along the hindmost margin; the 

 median pair of these hairs, which are placed outside the dark portion of the tergite, 

 are set scarcely in front of the row in contradistinction to a lateral hair on each side. 

 The eleventh tergite has a pair of rather short " tactile " hairs. The hairy spot in 

 front of the genital opening is triangular in shape (fig. 18 g). 



Antennae (PI. XXX. fig. 18 c). — The galea, which has about six short distal 

 branches, extends scarcely beyond the terminal hair (fig. 18c). 



Palps (PI. XXX. figs. 18 d-f). — The maxillce are smooth in the middle, but 

 laterally, anteriorly, and even interiorly distinctly granular ; the palps, with the 

 exception of parts of fingers, are distinctly and coarsely granular. The palps bear 

 a number of more or less short hairs, which on the trochanter and the femur are 

 strongly clavate, while the two following joints bear more or less distinctly clavate or 

 obtuse hairs ; those of the fingers are generally short, pointed, and broken, with a 

 single or a few median teeth. The trochanter, which is about 1*3 as long as wide, is 

 moderately convex anteriorly, but posteriorly it is rather suddenly produced, dorsally 

 only slightly so. The femur has a rather short well-defined stalk, beyond which it is 

 of almost equal breadth throughout (broadest in the middle). It is 2*4 as long as 

 wide ; the anterior outline is a trifle convex and then concave, while the posterior, 

 beyond the rather sudden basal convexity, is almost straight and then a trifle convex. 

 The tibia, which has a rather short and well-marked stalk, is as long as and a little 

 wider than the femur, and twice as long as broad ; anteriorly, beyond the stalk, it is 

 suddenly and distinctly convex and then slightly concave, while the posterior outline, 

 beyond the smaU condylus and insignificant basal elevation, is almost straight and then 

 moderately convex. The chela, which is 2'5 as long as wide, is l"o as broad as the 



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