PSEUDOSCORPIOXS OF THE GTINEA COAST 



and irregularly granulated. About in the middle there is a strong, 

 transversal elevation. Before this there is a convex , transversal 

 row of six elongate humps (of which the ocular humps may hi\ 

 considered as the lateral onesj, and before this row, on the very 

 front margin of cephalothorax , is a similar row of six humps, 

 rounded in the extremity, pointing forwards or rather forming 

 the front margin, covering almost entirely the mandibles. All the 

 humps are coarsely granulated. 



Abdomen regularly and broadly oblong; the first tergite entire 

 and very short, shortest in the middle, in front widened laterally; 

 the front margin with small , irregular granules. The resting 9 

 tergites are divided longitudinally by a tine stripe , all of them 

 about of the same length. The front margin of the second tergite 

 is, like that of the first, provided with irregular granules; the 

 anterior tergites are concave in front, backwards the tergites are 

 being more and more straight; the fifth and the sixth the i)roadest, 

 the last (tenth) broadly rounded Ijehind. The surface of the tergites 

 is coarsely and irregularly granulated. — On each side is placed the 

 upper row of 1 o lateral shields; these have the shape of rectangles 

 and are roughly granulated. — vSternites; tlie tirst sternite is very 

 small and narrow, placed just l^ehind the coxae of the IV. pair 

 of legs, composed of two joining halves; the last sternite (the 

 anus somite) entire with the hinder margin convex and the front 

 margin forming a very obtuse angle. The resting 7 sternite s are 

 distinctly divided longitudinally , the first of them rather short , 

 the rest about of equal length. The surface coarseh^ granulated, 

 yet less strongly than that of the tergites. As a continuation 

 forwards of the hinder margin of the anus somite may be consi- 

 dered the lower row of 14 lateral shields, of the same shape 

 and with the surface similar to those of the upper row. 



Palps shorter than the ]jody, slender (except femur). Coxa 

 very elongate, gradually narrowing forwards, the front and the 

 hinder margins o])liquely truncated, laterally, somewhat behind 

 the middle, with a distinct, toothlike projection ; the surface gra- 

 nulated. The resting articles of the palps have the surface coarsely 

 granulated, dispersedly clothed with some short, curved, rather 

 thick hairs, except the fingers, which in the distal half are densely 

 covered with rather long, acute hairs, curved forwards; on each 

 finger two « tactile hairs. » — Trochanter: the stalk of trochanter 



