= te Pee REF 
1884.] 
~ 
Zvilogy. 203 
parently belongs to this genus. The cephalothorax is much 
longer 
middle, narrowing in front and behind, 
and deeply cleft between the chelicerz, 
an unusual feature in the genus. There 
are no 
smaller than usual and separate at base; 
the head is shorter and the fingers longer 
than usual. The pedipalps are as long 
_ as the 
are rather thick. The abdomen is nar- 
row and rather long, with the segments 
well marked. Length of body including 
the chelicere 2™m. One specimen, col- 
ected by us in the Newmarket cave, Va. 
Chthonius cecus, n. sy .—Body unusu- 
ally short and broad, and the limbs short 
and thick 
stout and thick. Pedipalps unusually 
short ` 
than broad, widest just before the 
eyes. The cheliceræ are rather 
body without the cheliceræ, and 
ick. Eyeless. Cheliceræ very 
the 2d joint short and twice as Fic. 1.—-New Cave Obisium. 
thick as in C. packardu Hagen; 3d joint short, thick, conical ; 
manus 
very short and thick, really but little longer than the 3d 
joint; the movable finger nearly twice as long as the manus; it 
'S stout and very straight, and serrulate on the inneredge. Legs 
short and thick. Length of body with the cheliceræ, 1.5™™- 
Wo specimens collected by us at Weyer’s cave, Va 
genus 
presse 
and the 
reunded 
&macera cavicolens, gen. et sp. nov.—Gen. chars—lIn this 
of Phalangide the body is not spiny, is slightly com- 
» much less flattened than usual, no broader than high, 
tergal as well as ventral surface is unusually convex and 
The cephalic plate bearing the eyes is about half as 
long as broad. The abdomen forms two-thirds the length of the 
Pedi. with nine segments seen from above. Chelicerz 3-jointed. 
¢dipalps 6-jointed, considerably longer than the body. It has 
broad d 
diffuse 
ey close affinities to any of the European genera. 
-9P Chars —Eyes large, prominent, scarcely situated on an 
ce, black and well developed. A series of large, short but 
Orsal, transverse, blackish spots, and broad dusky lateral 
band. Chelicerz with manus rather thick, the fingers 
, vety unequal ; the movable fingers about two-thirds as long as 
ee 
Pedi 
Manus with 
a series of about 24 separate stiff, straight, sete. 
ap densely setose, from 1-1% longer than body, 5th joint 
| than any of the other joints, and much swollen, oval; 6th no 
the end into 
vided into twelve joints. Length of body, 4™™: thickness, 
"nas width, 2mm, J & y» 
5th is wide. Fourth pair of legs with joint 5 divided at 
nine minute joints, and the last tarsal joint (joint 6) 
i Bat cave, Carter Co., Ky. Two specimens. 
a mops, n. sp.—Eyes wanting, with traces of a retina, 
