86 AUSTRALIAN OPILIONES 
dorsal surface with a row of three small spines at three-quarters. 
Patella with numerous tubercles on the dorsal surface and a single 
tubercle on the ventro-distal surface. Tibia deeply concave below 
and strongly tuberculate on the dorsal surface, with a row of four 
spines along both the inner and outer ventro-lateral surfaces. 
Tarsus concave below; smooth except for three strong spines 
along each of the ventrolateral margins. Tarsal claw strong. 
Legs. Coxae I and II covered with small pustulate granules, 
but coxae III and IV with a row of similar granules at both the 
anterior and posterior margins, otherwise smooth. Ventral sur- 
face of trochanter of leg I with one large conical setose tubercle ; 
femur with a proximal ventral row of four similar tubercles; 
tibia with a ventral row of three more slender tubercles (Fig. 
39); legs otherwise sparsely granulate. Tarsal formula 3, 6-7, 
4, 4. Distotarsus of leg I two-segmented, leg II three-segmented. 
Caleaneus minute. 
Measurements in mms.— 
Body: length 2:33, width 2:13 
Cox. Troch. Fem. Pat. Tib. Met. Tars. Total 
hee Tte 040 05449 .0:68 038 да” 00, O9 3:05 
Leg IK m... 0988 022 0:06 0331 (ӨС 089 5073 5:17 
Leg III .. .. .. 068 03 07 04 07 078 0:43 3:98 
Leg IV ...... 074 024 104 04 088 118 0°64 5:15 
Pedipalp .. .. .. 014 076 0:39 0:53 — 043 2:63 
Chelicera: basal 0:53, second 0:68 1-21 
Types. Holotype male and paratypes, Dominion Museum, Wel- 
lington, New Zealand. 
Locality. Glen Osmond, South Australia, under stones, coll. 
J. Т. Salmon. 
Family ASSAMIIDAE Sorensen 
Subfamily Dampetrinae Roewer 
Genus DAMPETRUS Karsch, 1880 
Dampetrus gracilis, n.sp. 
Figs. 43-44. 
Colour. Entire body and appendages of a uniform yellow- 
brown, but the bases of granules on the dorsal surface of body 
blackish-brown. 
Body. Dorsal scute longer than wide in ratio of 3:2. Еуе- 
mound strongly granulate, wider than long in proportion of 11: 7, 
set almost its longitudinal depth from the anterior margin of the 
carapace (Fig. 43). Cephalothoracie carapace strongly granulate, 
with a strong ridge running across immediately before the anterior 
