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converging towards their ends and roundish on the outer anterior edges ; 

 their base is slightly thickened above where the palpi are inserted. 

 The latter are short and thick; their second joint is the longest, and 

 next to it in length comes the fifth. The lip, maxilla?, and three first 

 joints of the palpi are pure white, the two last joints brownish and 

 thickly set with stiff, dark hairs. 



The sternum is almost regularly oval, slightly truncate in front, 

 flat, white. The coxae are short and thick ; the feet of the two first 

 pairs are almost perfectly equal, the femora are stout and in front 

 granulated. The tarsi have only two joints of which the terminal is 

 much the shorter one. The feet of the two posterior pairs are sub- 

 equal among themselves, the third being the shorter and not much more 

 than equal to one half the length of one anterior foot. The joints 

 of the tarsi of the two posterior pairs are subequal, the terminal being 

 little shorter than the other. All the feet are white, the anterior 

 halves of the tibiae (proper) and the tarsi of the four anterior feet are 

 brown, and thickly set with short dark setae. Each foot terminates with 

 four claws, two large black ones and two smaller opposite pale brown 

 ones ; on the last pair of feet the claws become rather indistinct. 



The abdomen is much depressed, narrower and truncate in front, 

 slightly covering the base of the thorax with its edge which bears four 

 small tubercles. Along the lateral and front margin runs a double 

 raised, slightly undulating ridge. The postero-lateral corners are each 

 furnished with two large white tubercles, and a similar large boss occu- 

 pies the anal end below, while above between the two pairs of tuber- 

 cles the surface is transversely corrugated, and furnished again with 

 two pairs of shining brown tubercles, the anterior ones being a little 

 more distant than the posteriors. The middle part of the abdomen is 

 excavated, with the central portion again somewhat elevated and 

 studded over with a few impressions for the attachment of muscles. 

 Except the five white and four shining brown tubercles and a white 

 longitudinal central line, the rest of the upper surface is greyish 

 brown. The lower side of the abdomen is white, it has in the centre 

 a few transverse curved sulci ; laterally it is irregularly corrugated, 

 supplied with a narrow prominent ridge and some posterior tubercles ; 

 the epiginium is scarcely elevated, brownish ; the trachean slits trans- 

 verse, very distinct and lateral to it, somewhat distant from the anterior 



