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The body is chocolate red, with the under part and sides pale. 

 It is described as living amongst moss. 



LiNOPODES RAVUS {Koch, Ubers. Arach.). 

 — 2. Magnified figure of ditto, copied 

 from Guerin. 



LiNOPODES CURSORIUS ( Jr^/c,^., Apt.). — 



3. Magnified figure of ditto, copied from 

 Walckenaer. 



The elongated and thickly haired 

 palpi of this species would seem to 

 call for its separation from the two 

 preceding. 



All the above are bright in colour, 

 but more inclining to orange than 

 to scarlet. 



Genus Penthalodes {3Ii/ rr., 11. g.). 



A new genus made to receive the 



following species. 



Penthalodes ovalis (Megamerus ovalis, 

 Ditg/s, Ann. Sc. Nat. 1834). 



This species having only six joints 



to the legs, falls into the section of 



Eupodidae, instead of the Trombi- 



diidae, where DugeS placed it (in Lmopodes longipes. copied from Hermann's 



figure. 



Megamerus) ; but it has no Ime of 

 separation between the thorax and abdomen, and 

 cannot therefore go into Penthaleus (where Koch put 

 it), or any of the other genera having that for a cha- 

 racter. The only other place for it is the section with 

 six legs, and no throracic line of separation ; but the 

 only genus yet known of these is Linopodes, with 

 which it obviously has no relation, all its legs being 

 moderate in their proportions. A new genus, therefore, 

 is required for it, which we have named Penthalodes. 



