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MR. E. J. ORTLEPP ON THE 



(30) Physaloptera capensis, sp. 11. (Text-figs. 42 &. 43.) 



The material on which this study is based consisted of one 

 female, two males, and portions of two males. 



The cuticle is very finely striated transversely, and is only very 

 slightly reflected over the base of the lips. 



The lips are large, and each has on its outer lateral border two 

 dome-like papillae. The median external tooth is large and is 

 situated on the summit of the lip ; its tip is bluntly rounded ; 

 immediately internal to it there is another tooth of the same 

 height, but having its tip slightly notched ; towards the angles 

 of each lip there is an additional tooth, fairly large, Avliich is 

 generally bifid and may sometimes be irregularly ti'ifid. On 



Text-figure 42. 



PJii/saloptera capensis, sp. n. 

 A = Ventral view of anterior extremity of body. 

 B = Outer lateral view of lip. 

 C = Terminal portions of female genitalia. 



either side of the median tooth there is another bifid tooth, very 

 small and somewhat diificult to make out ; it is situated about 

 midway between the median and lateral teeth. 



The cervical papillse and excretory pore axe situated at the 

 same level, about 120 /x behind the junction of the two oesopha- 

 geal parts. 



The muscular part of the oesophagus forms about 1/1 1th of the 

 total length of the oesophagus ; it is slightly narrower than the 

 following part, and is surrounded in its middle by the nerve ring. 

 The whole cesophagus forms just less than l/5th of the total body- 

 length in the male and 1/1 0th in the female. 



