

336 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
ing tip of apical claw. Legs I 870p, IT 540u, III 540, IV missing; tarsus I elon- 
gate 216. long by 90» high, metatarsus I 115p long. 
Dorsal setae papilliform, of two sizes, larger 14y long, somewhat cup-like with 
strong setules, smaller fusiform with ciliations (fig. 26 D, E.), on the legs normally 
with rod-like ciliated setae but on leg IV, on the trochanter (the rest of leg IV is 
missing on both sides) there are some setae in the form of a clasped hands with at 
digits. ies 
Loc. One specimen from soil (Berlese funnel), Dobodura, New Guinea, 1944 
(G. M. Kohls.) A second specimen from leaf mould, at edge of rain forest, Do- 
bodura, Oct., 1944 (D.C.S.). 

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Fig. 26. Camerotrombidium distinctum (Canest). A, Crista and eyes (x 200); B, palp 
(X 200); C, front tarsus and metatarsus (X 200); D and E, dorsal and ventral views of larger 
dorsal seta (X 860); F, smaller dorsal seta (x 860); G and H, two views of the specialized 
setae on basal segments of leg IV (x 860); I, ordinary leg seta (x 860). 
Remarks. In 1912 Berlese (loc. cit.) synonymized with Canestrini’s Ottoma 
distincta from New Guinea, the species (of which he had been given a speci- 
men) described by Tragardh, 1904 (Entom. Tidsk., 25, 151, pl. 2, fig. 1-10, 
16) from the Cameroons, West Africa, as T'rombidium bipectinatum. As in all 
his species, Canestrini’s description is brief and inadequate, but Berlese’s con- 
clusions appear to have been based on the peculiar hand-like setae on the fourth 
leg found in the two species. 
Canestrini, however, speaks of the dorsal setae as ‘‘grani piccoli e grossi 
spinosi’’; in Trégiirdh’s and Berlese’s descriptions and figures, the dorsal setae 
are shown as being clavate and up to 60» long, and fusiform to 10 long. In 
the new specimen these setae are more of the form of granules (under low 
power) the larger to 14 in length and the smaller 84. They are thus in agree- 
ment with Canestrini’s description. 
The new specimen is rather smaller than Canestrini’s, 1-1 mm. x 0-6 mm. 
as compared with 3:0 mm, x 1:5 mm., but it is an adult and therefore possibly 
a male. 
As compared with btpectinatum the apical portion of the palpal tibia is 
much shorter and the front tarsi and metatarsi although of approximately the 
same relative dimensions are much smaller. 
The new specimen then seems undoubtedly to be Canestrini’s species, which 
is not the same as Tragirdh’s bipectinatum from Africa. 
