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of the first, but nearly of equal size and situated on the upper front 

 edge. The anterior laterals are the largest and situated before the 

 upper lateral projections of the front part of the thorax ; those con- 

 stituting the posterior lateral pair are placed on the same projections 

 near their points, behind and a little below. 



The falces are short, thick, greenish, covered with black hairs, and 

 provided with small brownish claws. 



The lip is elongated, slightly narrower at the end than at the base. 

 The mandibles are about one-third longer than the lip, narrow, slightly 

 expanded, rounded at the terminations, and thickened at the base, 

 where on the upper external side the thickened palpi are articulated. 



The sternum is small, oval, slightly truncated in front, the coxae 

 of the feet strongly swollen and projecting above the surface of the 

 sternum. The first and second pair of feet are subequal and longer than 

 the third and fourth, being again subequal and not much above half 

 the length of the former. They are like the sternum yellowish green, 

 with a brownish tint towards their terminations ; the end of the tibiae and 

 tarsi have on the inner side a number of strong short spines of a brown 

 colour. The tarsi each have two black strong claws and two opposite 

 smaller, pale coloured ones ; on the fourth feet each tarsus, however, 

 has 6 minute black claws. 



The abdomen is roundish in front, reaching partially over the base 

 of the thorax; it widens gradually, until in about two-thirds the 

 distance from the front edge, it attains its greatest breadth, marked on 

 either side by a projecting angle ; from this it rapidly contracts towards 

 the abdominal point. The colour is uniform pale greenish yellow, with 

 two minute brown dots near each of the angles of the greatest 

 breadth. The edge of the anterior part is finely granulated and some 

 little distance from it runs a row of similar fine granules separated from 

 the marginal row by a groove ; in the middle of the abdomen are five 

 minute depressions arranged in form of a triangle with the point directed 

 towards the front. The posterior abdominal end is marked with a few 

 transverse, slightly undulating ridges. The lower surface is on the sides 

 finely corrugated, in the middle flattened, with two slightly converg- 

 ing rows of five minute impressions, situated between the genital pore 

 and the spinners. The trachean opercula are lateral, small, having 

 posteriorly a transverse slit at the end. Of the spinners the posterior pair 



