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The species has many features in common with Ammotliea Wilsoni Schimkewitsch and it is for that 

 reason rather than on account of definite characters that I place it in the genus Ammotliea. 



Ammotliea quadridentata. 



Specific characters: 



Body discoid with lateral processes very close together and provided with a tubercle distally. 



Proboscis pyriform, long. 



Palps 8-jointed, 2nd and 3rd subequal, last four subequal. 



Ovigers io-jointed with very few denticulate spines, these having IO or 12 lateral teeth. 



Legs not very setose. Propodus with four large ventral spines. Terminal claw and auxiliaries large. 



Body discoid with the lateral processes stout and very closely pressed together. The cephalon is 

 expanded and its anterior border straight. Arising just in front of the middle and projecting forwards is 

 the ocular tubercle, this is stout, of small elevation, rounded at the apex and having four well developed 

 e} r es of which the posterior are the larger. 



The segmentation of the trunk is very indistinct as regards the posterior segment. The abdomen 

 is comparativefy long and very slightly swollen about the middle of its length, it lies above the posterior 

 lateral processes. The entire body has a length of 1,5 mm, its width is 1 mm. 



Fig. 2. Ammotliea quadridentata. $. Fig. 3. Ammotliea quadridentata. 



The proboscis is large, pyriform in shape and adds almost another millimetre to the length of 

 the animal. 



The cheliferi are rudimentary and comprise a very short slightly curved scape which bears a 

 rounded knob with but the merest vestiges of chelae. Both joints are covered with very minute stiff setae. 



The palps arise a little distance outside these from the sides of the wide cephalic border. They 

 are eight-jointed, the first is very short and stout, the second and fourth are subequal and the longest 

 of the appendage, they bear a few small setae distally, the third is very short and only forms a sort 

 of elbow. The four remaining joints are small and subequal, three of them are much swollen ventrally 

 and supplied on this surface with a comparatively dense tuft of setae, the terminal Joint is more slender, 

 ovoid in shape and equally richly supplied ventrally and bearing a small number dorsally also as does 

 the penultimate Joint. 



The oviger is ten-jointed and rises laterally between the proboscis and the first lateral processes. 



