AUSTRALIAN OPILIONES 79 
Paranuncia ingens Roewer, 1931 
Figs. 21-24 
1931. P. ingens Roewer, Zeitsehr. f. wiss. Zool., 138 (1), p. 155. 
Male. 
Colour. Body chocolate-brown, but with a light-brown patch 
outside the median paired spines of areas I-III. Legs dark-brown. 
Pedipalps and chelicerae light-brown but closely covered with 
blackish-brown reticulations. 
Body. Eyemound set back only slightly from the anterior mar- 
gin of the carapace, sloping steeply, almost vertically, up from 
immediately just behind the anterior margin of the carapace and 
sloping gently back along the posterior surface so that the apex 
is slightly anterior to the eyes (Fig. 21). Anterior margin of the 
cephalothoracic carapace produced forward between the chelicerae 
to form a median spine and at each outer margin to form a further 
pair. Three sharp erect spines are present along the anterior 
margin of the carapace each side of the eyemound, while a further 
rather blunt small spine is placed in from the lateral margin above 
leg 11. Cephalothoracic carapace separated from the scutum by a 
shallow groove, but scutum itself not divided by grooves. Areas 
І-ПІ each with a median pair of relatively large recumbent 
spines, those of area III being strongest. Area I with a cluster of 
four small tubercles at each lateral margin; area II with a trans- 
verse row of tubercles which do not extend to the lateral margins 
as is found on areas III-V. Free tergites I-III each with a single 
transverse row of similar tubercles. Sternites each with a single 
transverse row of granulations. Genital operculum sparsely 
granulate, evenly rounded, wider than long in the proportion of 
4:3. Maxillary lobe of coxa II produced anteriorly by an elongate 
blunt tubercle. 
Chelicerae. Relatively weak. Basal segment with a strong 
setose spine on the inner disto-dorsal surface, and several smaller 
setose tubercles on the dorsal surface. Second segment with a row 
of three setose spines on the proximal half of the dorsal surface 
and a few small setose tubercles scattered on the disto-distal 
surface. 
Pedipalps. As in Figs. 23, 24. Robust; coxa below with two 
spines on the distal margin, one lateral and the other median in 
position; trochanter with a large medio-ventral spine, followed by 
two smaller spines on the inner ventral margin; the dorsal surface 
unarmed except for a strong spine at two-thirds. Femur armed 
below with a strong spine on the proximal surface, followed by a 
