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B. Mucro stout, with the terminal tooth relatively small and not 



directed dorsalwards, . ... . . . L. Gardineri. 



All these species have eight ocelli on each side of the head, arranged in 

 the manner characteristic for Lepidocyrtiis (PI. XVI, fig. 44). The empodial 

 appendage of the front foot (fig. 48) is in all cases less elongate than that of 

 the intermediate and hind pairs (fig. 49). 



Lepidocyrtus silvestris sp. nov. 

 (Plate XV, figs. 28-30.) 



Mesonotum moderately prominent, twice as long as metanotum ; fourth 

 abdominal segment five times as long as third. Feelers rather less than twice 

 as long as the head; proportion of their segments as 5:7:7:4 (fig, 28). 

 Foot-claw with a single minute tooth, empodial appendage naiTowly lanceo- 

 late, tenent hair feebly clubbed at the tip (fig. 29). Spring half as long 

 as body ; manubrium stout, equal in length to dens and mucro together ; 

 mucro (fig. 30) narrow, with slender teeth, the dorsal spine long and acute. 



Length I'l mm. Colour deep violet: only the intersegmental sutures, 

 the spring and the tips of the feet pale. 



Locality.— Mahe : Foret Noire, 1000 ft. (October, 1908). 



Of all described Lepidocyrti known to me, this species comes nearest to 

 Z. caendeus Eitter ('12, pp. 389-390), from Ceylon, in which the feelers are 

 proportionately shorter, and the foot-claw has a distal tooth on the inner 

 edge. 



Lepidocyrtus obscuricornis sp. nov. 



(Plate XV, figs. 31-33.) 



Mesonotum but slightly prominent, less than half as long again as 

 metanotum ; fourth abdominal segment five times as long as third. Feelers 

 nearly twice as long as head, proportion of their segments as 5:9:9:11 

 (fig. 31). Foot-claw with two rather strong internal teeth (fig. 32). Spring 

 nearly half as long as body, manubrium stout, as long as dens and mucro 

 (fig. 31) ; mucro (fig. 33) with very prominent teeth, the dorsal spine slender 

 and slightly curved. 



Length, 2 mm. Colour, pale yellow, except for lateral violet specks on 

 fourth abdominal sterna and a violet suffusion on the feelers from the tip of 

 the second segment to that of the fourth. 



Locality. — Mahe : Cascade, lUOO ft. (1908, many specimens). 



In its type of colouration, structure of mucro, and the hairy feelers, this 

 species resembles L. scaber Putter ('12, pp. 390-1), from Ceylon -, the latter, 

 however, has the empodial appendage broadened at the tip. 



