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curved, robust, the fixed finger most so; each finger on the in- 

 ner margin with a dense row of small, low, truncated teelh. 



Mandibles robust ; galeabranched, in adult specimens generally 

 with two branches springing from the middle, these branches being 

 provided with several long or short teeth; in younger specimens the 

 galea is more simple, and with only some teeth at the extremity. 



Legs with long, pointed hau's, the femora of the two poste- 

 rior pairs of legs very broad. Claws simple. 



Length of the largest specimens nearly 4 mm., but the ab- 

 domen is much contracted. 



Measurements. Céphalothorax: long. 1.00; lat. 0.89. Man- 

 dibles: long. 0.64. Femur: long. L07; lat. 0.36. Tibia: long. 

 0.86 (the stalk 0.22); lat. 0.47. Hand: long. 0.93; lat. 0.69. 

 Fingers: long. 1,00 mm. 



Locality. Yamanaka, March, 1905, 11 specimens. 



Microcreagris pygmaea, nov. sp. 



Four eyes, two on each side, placed near to each other, the 

 anterior one about a diameter from the front margin. 



Céphalothorax reddish brown, the sclerites olivaceous brown, 

 palps light reddish, legs and the interstitial parts whitish. 



Céphalothorax scarcely longer than it is wide, smooth and 

 glossy, only minutely shagreened along the hinder margin. 

 There is generally a slight transversal depression near the hin- 

 der margin. The lateral margins are nearly parallel up to the 

 eyes, in front of which they converge a little; the front margin, 

 from the middle, slightly oblique ; on the front margin scarcely any 

 tooth. The surface covered with scattered, rather long, pointed hairs. 



Abdomen. Tergites and sternites glossy, distinctly, though 

 rather minutely, shagreened, with rows of long, pointed hairs 

 along the hinder margins. 



Palps slender, about as long as the body, glossy, more or 

 less granulated, except the coxa, the trochanter, the lower and 



