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situated anterior to the rami. The rami armed witli four small 

 teeth. 



Farcala. — Reaching to the ventral tube ; clothed with long 

 seta; (fig. (37). The muo-oiies quadrangular, armed with four 

 terminal teeth and a small lateral tooth on each side (fig. (35). 



Coloration. — Purple-lnown, somewhat paler in the mid-dorsal 

 region. The head and first joint of the antenna' darker than the 

 re.st of the body. The first and second antennal joints with 

 a distal l)and of cream-colour, the third and fourth joints entirely 

 cream-coloured with a slight purplish suffusion. The Imsal joints 

 of the legs, together wuth the femora, puiplish lirown ; the femora 

 with their apices cream-coloured. The tibias cream-coloured with 

 a proximal and distal band of purple. The ventral tube sufiused 

 with purple. The fui'cula pallid with light purple suffusions. 



Length varying from .3-5-4-5 mm. 



Four specimens, takea among dry leaves and stones on the edge 

 of a jungle-streain at Maddathoray, W. base of W. Ghats, 

 Travancore, 8. India {X. Annandale, November 18th, 1908). 



No. ^^^^ Indian Museum Coll. 



16 



* Paronella gracilis, sp. n. (PI. XI. figs. 77, 78.) 



Segmentnm ahdominale quartum segmentis ])ra'.cedentihus trihiis 

 dupio loiHjius. Antenme corpore longiore. Ocelli 1(5 : 8 in 

 vtroque latere capitis. Unguiculus superior denticuUs trihus 

 {vfil duobus) instr actus ; unguiculus inferior inermis. Mucrones 

 lati. Long. 5 mm. 



//e„(^._Oonsiderably longer than broad. The eyes eight in 

 numbei- on each side ; post- antennal organs absent. 



Antemue. — Longer than the body, in some cases as long as the 

 combined length of the body and f urcula. In full-grown examples 

 they vary from 6-5-7-5 mm. in length. The relative lengths of 

 the joints varying from the proportion of 15:15:10:27to 

 17 : 16 : 10 : 30. Densely clothed with hairs ; on the basal joint 

 lanceolate scales are present among the hairs. 



Trunk. — Clothed with small lanceolate scales, among which are 

 numerous hairs ; a " fringe " of setae along the anterior border of 

 the mesothorax. The segments related proportionately in length 

 as 9 : 6 : 4 : 5 : 2 : 22 : 2 : 1. The fourth abdominal segment 

 double the length of the three preceding segments. 



Legs. Long and slender, clothed with slender, elongate setae. 



The tibia} divided by a joint into proximal and distal portions, 

 related respectively in length in the proportion of 2 : 1. A single 

 long stout tenent hair in relation with each foot. The superior 

 claws moderately slender, straight (fig. 77); armed with two 

 teeth, one placed at a distance from the base equal to one-third 

 the total length of the claw, the other placed at a similar distance 

 from the apex. Between the distal tooth and the apex of the 

 claw is a minute tooth which, however, is not always present. 



