WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF NEW AFRICAN SPECIES. 



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very hairy, attached by its end and bent downwards. Abdominal segments with un- 

 equal, obtuse spines or tubercles. Ventral surface and coxa; minutely tubcrculate. Feet 

 distally pilose. (PI. 24, fig. 9.) 



Length of body, 0.30" inch. Length of posterior legs, about 11 inch. 



Remarks. — There is but a single specimen in the collection. 



Hob. " Between Quito and Napo," Ecuador. 



Q. sphdpalpm, n. sp. 



Dorsum a dark, blackish brown. Cephalothorax not generally granulate, provided with 

 a somewhat distinct but here and there obsolete impressed line some distance within and 

 sub-parallel to its margin, which separates a central, oval, elevated part from the more level 

 margin ; also divided by a deeply impressed curved line some distance posterior to the eye- 

 eminence and by an obsolete, subparallel line posterior to this ; the anterior portion with a 

 pair of widely separated, small, tuberculoid spines ; on the posterior surface, anteriorly, a 

 transverse scries of similar tubercles or spines, the middle pair of which are, however, much 

 larger ; then a second similar, but uniform series ; then a pair of very large spines flanked 

 by one or two tubercles, and posterior to these five tubercles in two rows. Eye-eminence 

 oval, broad, transverse, with a largish blunt spine and one or two very small ones surmount- 

 ing the eyes. Mandibles large, their penultimate joint sub-globose, with a few small, slight- 

 ly curved, robust, acute, thornlike spines ; their last article robust, smooth, with rigid spine- 

 like hairs, attached by its end, but so bent as to hang vertically. Palpi long, rather robust, 

 proximally sub-cylindrical ; their trochanters with a few very blunt spinous processes ; 

 their penultimate article dilated with five unequal, long, slender, acute spines on elevated 

 bases on the inner margin, and two very long and two very small similar ones on the 

 outer margin; their last article slightly spoon-shaped, with four spines similar to the last 

 on each margin. Abdominal scuta with a row of tuberculoid spines on each; the abdomi- 

 nal segments below tipped with whitish, each with a series of minute granules. Coxaa 

 roughly granulate, the granules often disposed in longitudinal series; the last pair rather 

 small for this genus. Legs granulate, of a lighter color than the body, their tarsal portion 

 very hairy. (PI. 21, fig. 0.) 



Length of body, 0.25" ; of first pair of legs, 1; of second ?; of third, 0.9"; of fourth, 

 1.10". 



Remarks. — A single specimen in the collection. 



Bab. Ecuador. 



