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ilio under side and completely fused laterally. On the sides of 

 abdomen, l)etween the tergites and the sternites, there are two 

 rows of snuill shields. ^Mandibles: serrula of the moveable finger 

 grown fast the whole length; lamina interior present, lamina 

 exterior missing; galea present. All legs composed of coxa, tro- 

 chanter, femur pars basalis and pars tibialis, tibia and one tarsal 

 article. 



The new family belongs to Balzan's group Panctenodactyli. 

 Genus l^eaella, nov. 



Cephalothorax much narrower than abdomen, on the anterior 

 part with two transversal rows of humps; four eyes, tw^o on each 

 side, placed on the lateral hump in the posterior row. Cephalo- 

 tliorax and abdomen granulated. Coxa of the palps narrow; the 

 palps of small size, hand vei-y much reduced. Mandibles very 

 small, nearly hidden 1)y cephalothorax from above and i)y coxa 

 from beneath. 



The genus is named after the discoverer of the animal, the 

 late Leonardo Fea. 



Feaella. iiiii:-al>ili.s nov. sp. 



Four large, distinct eyes, two on each side; these two eyes 

 are placed, one on the anterior side and the other on the posterior 

 side of a large, unaven hump, the former thus turning forwards 

 and the latter backw^ards, distinctly separated from each other, 

 the anterior one about a diameter from the front margin of 

 cephalothorax. 



Colour: the whole animal brick-coloured with some darker spots 

 on some of the sternites; the interstitial parts of abdomen greyish 

 brown. 



The fingers of the palps and the legs excepted, the hairs are 

 very scarce ; great parts of the animal are entirely destitute of 

 hairs; on cephalothorax and the palps (except the fingers, see these) 

 there are some very short, thick and curved hairs. 



Cephalothorax narrow^, a little longer than Ijroad, the hinder 

 margin straight, the lateral margins arcuated in the middle, the 

 anterior and the posterior corners pointed. The surface coarsely 



