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F. W. EDWARDS — ON THE ORIENTAL 



that of all the other species, besides which the claws are said to be all simple. 

 Until the male is known however it can only be placed in this genus. 



Described by Theobald from a single female from Travancore (Maddathoray). 



Fig. 1. — Male genitalia of Leicester ia fiava, Leic. 



2. L. flava (Leic). 



Chaetomyia flava, Leic, Stud. Inst. Med. Res., Fed. Malay States, iii, 

 p. 101 (1908). 



Leicesteria apicalis, Theo., Rec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 291 (1908). 



Brevirhynchus apicalis, Theo., Rec. Ind. Mus. iv, p. 7 (1910). 

 I have compared the male and female types of Leicesteria apicalis with the 

 female type of Brevirhynchus apicalis and with three female cotypes of Chaetomyia 

 flava ; they undoubtedly all belong to the same species, and it is somewhat 

 curious that Theobald should have redescribed L. apicalis under the same specific 

 name although it is of course no occasion for surprise that he made no reference 

 to his former description. The postnotum in each of these specimens bears at 

 least two or three small pale hairs, while Leicester's specimens have some 

 scales in addition. L. apicalis Q was described as having the integument of the 

 thorax " shiny black " ; this is quite incorrect, it is rather light brown (even in 

 the type) as in other species of the genus. The middle legs of the male type are 

 missing, hence probably Theobald's statement that the middle claws are unequal 

 was pure assumption ; they are equal in the Sarawak male as in all the other 

 species I have examined. I made a preparation of the genitalia of the male type 

 of L. apicalis and found that they corresponded in almost every detail with those 

 of the specimen figured (from Sarawak) ; there were however five instead of six 

 apical spines to the claspers. In both the males examined the basal lobes of the 

 side-pieces bore three spines. 



