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PAKONELLINI. 



Microparonella gen. nov. 



Body scaled. Feelers relatively short, four-segmented with the segments 

 not markedly disproportionate. Legs spinose ; foot-claw normal, empodium 

 narrow, tenent hair feebly clubbed. Ventral tube elongate, with large pro- 

 trusible bilobed sac. Fourth abdominal segment from three to four times 

 as long as third. Spring elongate, with slender, rigid (Paronelline) dentes ; 

 dens with a row of strong spines, but without terminal scale- appendage ; 

 inucro of the broad (Paronelline i typo, with four or five bkint teeth. 



Type, Microparonella caendea (sp. nov.) Seychelles. 



This genus is of considerable interest, as it combines the distinctive 

 Paronelline characters of the spring with the general aspect of an Entonio- 

 bryiue insect. In the inconspicuous feelers and the relatively short fourth 

 abdominal segment, it seems much more primitive than most members of the 

 Paronellini, and illustrates an annectaut type of structure that might, 

 perhaps, be expected in some members of the fauna of such islands as the 

 Seychelles. Microparonella — as its name implies — differs from most Paro- 

 nelline genera in the small size of its species. On the whole, it comes 

 nearest to Dicranocentroides, Imms ('12, p. 102), founded on a North Indian 

 species from the Himalayan foot-hills, with which it agrees in the spinose 

 dentes, but from which it may be readily separated by the much shorter 

 feelers and fourth abdominal segment, and by the smaller size of the insects 



The two species referred to Microparonella may be distinguished thus : — 



A. Colour blue, three ocelli on each side, foot-claw with no distal 



tooth, mucro broader, M. caerulea. 



B. Colour yellow, eight ocelli on each side, foot-claw with strong 



distal tooth, mucro narrow, ..... M.flava. 



Microparonella caerulea sp. nov. 



(Plate XVII, figs. 55-58.) 



Feeler twice as long as the head, proportional length of its segments as 

 5 : 9 : 9 : 12 (fig. 55), Ocelli three only on each side (fig. 56). Fourth 

 abdominal segment three and a-half times as long as third. Foot with slender 

 sensory bristle, no tenent hair ; claw (fig. 57) with strong proximal teeth, but 

 without distal tooth. Spring four-fifths as long as body, the dens slightly 

 longer than the manubrium ; mucro (fig. 58) twice as long as broad, five 

 prominent teeth, a ventral, two terminals, a dorsal, and a lateral. 



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