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HON. N. CHARLES EOTHSCHILD — ON A NEW FI/tA. 



Fig. 2. — Clasping organs of C/». ^oJis, $. M., manubrium ; 

 CI., clasper ; F., finger ; P., process of the clasper. 



Q . The seventh sternite is ventrally truncate, and laterally produced into a 

 short obtuse lobe (fig. 3). The eighth tergite has no bri- ties above and below 



Fig. 3. — Abdominal segments VII. and "VIII., and recep- 

 taculum seminis (R.s.) of Ch. polls, $ . 



the stigma, but bears about 6 bristles near the apical ventral margins on the 

 outer surface, and about 9 at the apical edge. The stigma of this segment is as 

 large as in the (S . The eighth sternite is small, and has no bristles. The stylet 

 is slender. The anal tergite bears dorsally on each side a long bristle which 

 equals in length the apical bristle of the stylet. The receptacuhim seminis is very 

 small, the tail being of about the same length as the head, and the latter being 

 thinnest centrally (fig. 3, E.s.). 



Length, (S 1'5 mm., Q 1-9 mm. 



One (5 a^nd three Q Q from Zomba, Nyassaland, taken by Dr. H. S. Stannus, 

 in December, 1910, off the large elephant shrew, Rhynchocyon cirnei, Peters.. 



