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bases ; mostly dull or nearly so, part of hand glossy ; bristles moderately 

 long more or less clavate. Cephalo thorax strongly granulate, l^oth grooves 

 distinct ; eyes convex, well-limited, nearly smooth ; abdominal tergites rather 

 strongly granulate, tergite XI. with 1 pair sternite XI. with 2 pairs of 

 tactile hairs ; galea of moderate length, distally with short processes ; palps 

 (fig. 12) trochanter with upper protuberance high inclining backwards, 

 femur increasing obliquely but rather rapidly from stalk and soon attaining 

 full lireadth, tibia without marked anterio-proximal convexity, becomiag 

 broad towards middle and beyond, hand relatively only moderately broad, 

 fingers shorter than hand ; the palp is granulate all round, hand and lower 

 surface less distinctly so, lower surface of hand nearly smooth ; coxae IV. with 

 posterior margin almost straight, not twice as long as inner ; legs IV. tarsus 

 with tactile hair some way beyond middle. L. 2-5. 



3 Abdominal tei'gites somewhat more developed ; sternites (IV.) V.-IX. 

 with well-defined inner-posterior areas furnished with a great number of 

 closely placed minute bristles, occupyiirg at median Kue posterior two-thirds 

 and extending to about middle of posterior margin of each sclerite; galea 

 much smaller; palps somewhat longer, trochanter with protuberance more 

 developed, tibia noticeably elongated with more evident concavity beyond 

 stalk behind, hand narrower and a little longer, fingers a little longer, with 

 scarcely wider gape ; coxae IV. somewhat narrower at base, posterior margin 

 scarcely if at all concave. 



Among refuse, in buildings and in the open, in the south of England ; almost certainly imported ; 

 J[r. Cambridge received it in 1880 front an oil-mill at Dover and from near Plymouth, in 1 886 

 from an old building at Hyde, Dorsetshire,' and in 1905 from Sheppej', where Mr. Donisthoi'pe 

 found it in a heap of refuse of sugar- and rice-gunnies, etc., and in this place the writer saw it two 

 years later in great plenty; Hendon (1908), in a manure-heap (E. A. Butler). - 



(33, 42, 67.) 



Cheiridiom. 



Gheiridiuvi Menge 1855 (20). 



Legs I. with femur entire or with indistiuct trochantin, never with well- 

 separated trochantin and femur ; legs IV. with femur entire. Cephalothorax 

 with head distinctly marked off; thorax without groove. Abdominal somite 

 XI. with tergite visible or invisible from above, its sternite with semi-circular 

 incision for somite XII. which is almost or quite ventral. Bristles sickle- 

 shaped, one-toothed. Eyes 2, well removed from anterior margin of head. 



'Kecordedas C. peculiaiis L. Koch; by mistake (38). 



- Our specimens are identical, as Mr. With has ascertained, with those of Hansen found in 

 Denmark in rice-warehouses and in ships wilii sngai and rice from the KasL (31, 3.5, 66). 



