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presence of the shrivelled female body. Of the eight specimens in this collection 

 five of the tests are entirely naked. The other three show the presence of 

 long large curved glassy filaments (fig. 188), which were apparently equally long 

 and equally numerous over the whole dorsal and marginal areas.'' (12, p. 109.) 



Adult female. — Slightly longer than wide, anterior end broadly rounded, 

 posterior end produced ; 1.75-2 mm. long, 1.25-1.5 wide. 



Margin: 8-shaped pores in a single rather indefinite row terminating twice 

 length of apical seta from setal bases, individual pores slightly invaginated, 

 about 12 fi long and 9 wide, two to six times a pore's length apart ; quinquelocular 

 pores in a single row of 10-15 outside of anterior and posterior spiracular pore 

 bands, and in an irregularly single or double row between spiracular pore band-. 

 three or four times as numerous as 8-shaped pores. 



Dorsal surface : 8-shaped pores scattered, numerous, especially near margin 

 slightly invaginated. 14-22 /x long and 9-16 wide, the majority 18-20 /x long and 

 14 wide ; minute 8-shaped pores not observed ; disk pores numerous ; tubular 

 ducts 48 ix long. 



Ventral surface: Antenna a circular, thick disk, with 3 setae shorter than 

 diameter of antenna : beak apparently without setae : spiracle with bar greatly 

 expanded at inner end. with atrium enlarged and containing 10-15 quinquelocular 

 pores, and 30-40 similar pores extending to body margin in a fan-shaped row; 

 multilocular pores, totaling approximately 135 and with 10 loculi, apparently in 

 6 complete rows, posterior row with 12, penultimate with 30, next with 36, each 

 of next 2 with 24, anterior with 10: dark-rimmed 8-shaped pores very numerous, 

 tending toward arrangement in transverse rows posterior to mouth parts, 

 scattered anterior and lateral to mouth parts ; submarginal 8-shaped pores in 

 a very irregular double row terminating near anterior row of multilocular pores, 

 two or three times as numerous as marginal 8-shaped pores : 4 pairs of submargi- 

 nal setae on posterior part of abdomen, the posterior pair slightly nearer to 

 the posterior pair of marginal 8-shaped pores than to apical setae ; 1-3 pairs 

 of setae in each of the 4 central rows of multilocular pores. 



Apex of abdomen : Setae, apical 20 /x long, interapical, 5.4 /x ■ long, inner 

 ventral 3.6 ix long, outer ventral 5.4 /x long; anal opening apparently in margin, 

 circular, its margin sclerotized ; anal tube very short, sclerotized ; anal ring 

 sclerotized. 



Larva. — Broadly elliptical. 



Margin : With 28 8-shaped pores, axes of all longitudinal ; 3 pairs of setae 

 anteriorly. 



Dorsal surface : 8-shaped pores in a submedian row of 5-7 and a lateral row 

 of 11, on each half of body, with a total of 32-36. submedian pores practically 

 equal in size to marginal, lateral pores of same size or slightly larger than 

 marginal ; disk pores between lateral and marginal and a few between submedian 

 and lateral 8-shaped pores ; a pair of setae anterior to anterior pair of submedian 

 pores. 



Ventral surface : Antennal setae, I, 2 : IV, 1 ; V, 1 ; VI, 2 long, 2 stout, 2 fairly 

 stout ; antennal bases one-third length of antenna apart : beak setae, 2 pairs apical. 

 1 pair basal; spiracle with 1 trilocular pore; leg setae, coxa 4, femur 1 on inner 

 margin near base and 1 each on inner and outer margins near center, tarsus 

 1 each on inner and outer margins; tibia slightly more than one-half as long 

 as tarsus; 3 pairs of submarginal 8-shaped pores, 1 pair between anterior and 

 posterior spiracles and 2 pairs posterior to posterior spiracles: 5 pairs of minute 

 submarginal setae on abdomen; 2 pairs of setae between antennae and mouth 

 parts. 



Apex of abdomen: Notch present: lobes indicated: setae, apical 100 fx long, 

 interapical 1.8 /x long, inner ventral 1.8 /x long, outer ventral (nearly anterior 

 to the latter) 1.8 /x long ; anal opening apical ; anal tube very short, membranous : 

 anal ring sclerotized. 



Data. — Redescribed from 2 mounted intact and 2 mounted fragmen- 

 tary females, and 23 mounted larvae on veld-bush. Ceres. Cape Prov- 

 ince, South Africa. C. P. L. 1898, Brain No. 21. type and paratypes. 



Adults of this species are unusual in having the row of marginal 

 8-shaped pores indefinite owing to the distance between these, to their 

 position, and to the proximity of the dorsal pores to the marginal. The 

 larvae are unusual in having only three pairs of minute submarginal 

 8-shaped pore-. The species resembles euryopis in having invaginated 

 8-shaped pores and a poorly denned row of marginal 8-shaped pores. 



