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provision for a future progeny is conducted in 

 the usual manner. Degeer saw a female Pha- 

 langium laying her eggs the size of a grain of 

 sand, perfectly spherical, very white, covered 

 with a membranous and flexible skin, and de- 

 posited in little heaps by the side of each other. 



SPECIFICATION. 



Phalamgium Hellwigii. P. atrum, abdomine 

 laevi elliptico, chelis aculeatis. 

 Panzer, Faun. Ins. Germ.fasc. 13. t. 18. 

 Inhabits Germany. 

 PL 79. a. One of the cheliform fangs magnified. 



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