74 AUSTRALIAN OPILIONES 
Female. 
Colour. As in male. 
Body. Eyemound as in male, but set no more than one-third of 
its length from the anterior margin of the carapace. Anterior 
margin of the carapace with five spines placed as in male but 
much smaller, The antero-lateral pair not modified (Fig. 26). 
Remaining body characters as in male. 
Chelicerae. Shorter than male (Fig. 26), two-thirds the length 
of body. Basal segment strongly bent, disto-dorsal surface 
swollen. Rounded boss on outer proximal surface wanting. 
Second segment with a sharp spine on the inner dorsal surface. 
Pedipalps. Much weaker than male (Figs. 31, 32). Spination 
differing as follows: Proximo-ventral spine of femur unevenly 
bifurcate, third ventral spine of male reduced to a small tubercle; 
tibia with one proximal and three distal spines on the inner 
ventro-lateral margin, while those on the outer ventro-lateral 
margin are greatly reduced in size; tarsus with two median-placed 
tubercles on the inner ventro-lateral surface. 
Legs. Coxae as in Fig. 27. Only moderate-sized spines present 
on the prodistal surface of coxa, retrodistal surface of coxa II and 
prodistal surface of coxa IV. Tarsal formula 3, 10-11, 4, 4. Disto- 
tarsus of leg I two-segmented, leg ІІ four-segmented. 
Measurements in mms.— 
Body: length 5:55, width 3:90 
Cox. Troch. Fem. Pat. Tib. Met. Tars. Total 
Leg І........ 152 048 194 0:89 144 193 1:93 9:43 
Leg IL. .. .. .. 168 0:58 2:48 08 204 2:38 2-49 12:43 
beg TIL 2.2. 1:42 0:53 1:53 0:88 1:48 2:98. 1,98 9-80 
Leg IV ...... 196 065 944 193 2:08 2:94 7298 13:14 
Pedipalp .. .. .. 0:43 174 0:78 1:38 -- 1:04 5:87 
Chelicera: basal 1:54, second 1:93 3:47 
Types. Holotype male, allotype female and paratypes in the 
National Museum collection. 
Localities. Diamond Creek, Victoria, coll. J. E. Dixon, August, 
1925 (Type locality) ; Warburton, Victoria, coll. J. A. Kershaw, 
April 11, 1905; Kallista, Victoria, under logs, coll. A. N. Burns, 
September 18, 1946. 
The spination of the pedipalps of this species differs consider- 
ably from both of the previously described Victorian species, N. 
cheliplus Roewer and N. parvula Roewer. The numerous strue- 
tural characters which show sexual dimorphism in the above 
