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30. ChELIFER 5ITIDIMANUS Ell. 

 1905. EUingsen, (i8) pp. 11-12. 



(Plate XXX. fig. 21 a; text-fig. 70.) 



Text-fls. 70. 



Female. 



Gephalothorax. — Large rather jindistinct ocular spots (c/. Ellingsen, i8.). The 

 cephalothorax, which is distinctly longer than wide, has two distinct transverse 

 stripes, which are slightly curved backwards in the middle. The integument is fairly 

 distinctly granular with rather fiat granules, with the exception of the almost smooth 

 lateral white spots of the second tergite ; the short hairs are slightly clavate. 



Abdomen. — The fairly long and slender abdomen has all the tergites except the 

 eleventh divided by a distinct longitudinal band. The sclerites are granular with 

 scale-shaped granules, and bear along the hindmost margin of each pair six or 

 eight fairly long slightly clavate hairs as well as a lateral one in front of the row 

 {cf. Ellingsen) ; the eleventh tergite possesses a pair of " tactile " hairs. The hairy 

 spot in front of the vulva is very insignificant. 



Antennas. — The fairly slender galea, which has at least six distal branches, extends 

 slightly beyond the terminal hair. The flagellum consists of three hairs. 



Palps (PI. XXX. fig. 21 «; text-fig. 70). — The 7naxillai are completely smooth ; the 

 trochanter and femur are distinctly granular and so is the tibia, but less distinctly ; 

 all these joints are smooth below, and so is the hand all over except 

 anteriorly at the base of the fingers {cf. Ellingsen). The long 

 hairs are either slightly clavate, as on the inner surface of the 

 femur, or obtuse and dentated. The trochanter, which is about 

 1-6 as long as wide, is anteriorly moderately convex and posteriorly 

 as well as dorsally slightly produced. The femur has a short and 

 well-marked stalk, beyond which it is of almost equal breadth 

 throughout, only very slightly attenuated towards the end. It is 

 about 2-2 as long as wide ; the anterior outline is very slightly 

 convex and then a trifle concave, while the posterior is rather 

 abruptly convex beyond the stalk, then straight and again ter- 

 minally a trifle convex. The tibia, which has a moderately long 

 and well-marked stalk, is a little longer and wider than the femur 

 and about twice as long as broad ; the anterior outline is fairly 

 distinctly convex with a slight terminal concavity, while the 

 posterior, beyond the moderately big condylus, is basally straight 

 and then regularly and moderately convex with the most raised part 

 a little beyond the middle. The chela, which is three times as long as wide, is almost 

 1-2 as broad as the trochanter is long ; the hand, which is scarcely longer than the 

 tibia, but 1-4: as wide, is almost 1-7 longer than broad, about 1-1 as deep as wide, and 

 about 1-2 as long as the fingers, which are distinctly longer than the hand is deep 

 and do not gape when closed ; the lateral as well as the dorsal outlines of the hand 

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Cli. nitidimanus~S.)l., 

 $. Cliela of right 

 palp in anterior view. 

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