112 PROF. A. D. IMMS OX 



backwardly directed teeth, situated just behind the inner apical 

 tooth, and a small acicular tooth near to the base of the mucro. 

 At the apex of the dens, on its inner aspect, is a small scale-like 

 organ (fig. 79). 



Coloration. — Colour when alive leaden purple (in some speci- 

 mens almost black) with a slight metallic sheen. The antennse 

 and legs purple-black. The furcula greyish white. In alcohol 

 specimens the colour is purple-black when but few of the scales 

 have been lost. In the majority of ca.ses the specimens become 

 denuded of a large proportion of the scales, and the body-colour 

 then appears mottled and streaked with shades of brown and 

 purple-black. 



Length varying from 3-3-75 mm. 



Thii'teen examples, taken on the inside Avails of an old bungalow, 

 probably i-esiding in decaying beams and rafters ; Bhowali, 

 Himalayan foot-hills of Kumaon, circa 5700 ft. [A. I). Imms, 

 June 12th-29th, 1910). 



No. ^ Indian Museum Coll. 



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Perfect examples of this species are easily recognised by the 

 conspicuous tufts of sub-erect setfe ; in alcohol specimens the 

 latter fall off with extreme readiness and are usually absent. 



In five of the specimens the two distal antennal joints are 

 lemon-yellow, and very conspicuous in consequence. Whether 

 this is a sexual or varietal difference I am unable to say. 



* Paronella insignis, sp. n. (PI. XI. fig. 80 ; PI. XII. figs. 81 

 & 82.) 



Unguicidus superior uno dente armatus : unguiculus inferior 

 acideatus, inermis. Mucrones lati, duobus denticidis apicalibus 

 et tribus denticidis dorsalibics armati. Denticidi dorsales ita collocati 

 tot unus jiost alterthm sit insertus. Long. 3-7 mm. 



Head. — A little longer than the mesothorax ; covered with 

 scales, among which are a few scattered setfe. The eyes eight in 

 number on either side ; jyost-antemnal organs absent. 



Antennce. — Very long and slender, exceeding 5 mm. in length. 

 The joints mutually related in length in the proportion of 

 17:13:23. 



Trunk. — Elongate, linear, clothed with scales. The scales 

 small and broadly lanceolate ; a tuft of setce at the extremity of 

 the abdomen. The segments related in length as 10 : 8 : 5 : 6 : 

 5 : 22 : 3 : 2 (fig. 80). 



Legs. — All the legs similar ; the tibise distinctly divided into 

 proximal and distal portions by a definite joint. The proximal 

 portion a little more than twice the length of the distal portion 

 (i.e., as 15 : 7). The sujyeynor claws (fig, 81) of the feet slender 

 and tolerably long, armed with a single tooth situated at a 

 distance from the apex of the claw equal to one third the length 

 of the claw. In some examples there is also a rudimentar}^ 

 tooth placed at a similar distance from the base of the claw. 



