492 



S. UCIIIDA : 



angles projecting, furnished on segments J-VII each with a long hair 

 and three or four spines and on segment VIII with a short and two 

 long hairs; the last segment broad, with a fringe of hairs on the flatly 

 rounded posterior margin ; two long hairs on each side of that fringe. 

 Posterior margin of first and second segments strongly curved posteriorly, 

 almost parallel to metathorax ; posterior margin of third segment 

 convex : that of the fourth straight ; that of the fifth to eighth concave. 

 Dorsal surface of first to third segments with several short hairs on 

 each side of the posterior margin ; dorsal surface of the fourth to 

 seventh with a row of hairs of different length, interrupted in the 

 middle. Ground colour of abdomen pale brownish, with broad smoky 

 brown lateral bands which become darker on posterior segments and 

 end on the eighth segment ; no transverse bands on dorsal surface, 

 but those of ventral surface show themselves through the body ; the 

 transverse bands of first and second ventral segments indistinct ; those 

 of seventh to nineth segments form one continuous blotch covering the 

 whole space between the lateral bands. Sterilite of first abdominal 

 segment reduced ; that of second segment the longest, with a group of 

 four very strong spines on each side of the concave posterior margin ; 

 posterior margin of third to eighth segments concave and thickly 

 covered with hairs of different lengths. 



Gen. Menopon Nitzsch. 

 19. 3Ienopon eulasius Kellogg. 



Kellogg, Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition, 1908, 15, 4, p. 54. Taf. 7, Fig. 11. 



Six fe naie and four male specimens were collected from Phœthon 

 Candidus obtained in the Palau Ids. (April 2). The males agree very 

 closely with Kellogg's description and figure of a specimen taken from 

 Phalacrocorax africanus. The female, which remained unknown to 

 Kellogg, is larger and slightly darker than the male ; abdomen more 

 elongate-elliptical, the posterior margin of eighth abdominal segment 



