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latter and the third lobes, and usually four much broader ones beyond 
them, following which are three or four tuberculate plates resembling 
those on the abdominal segment, but they are smaller. Margin finely 
crenulated, Circumgenital glands in five groups ; formula of three 
examples : — 
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20 16 / \ 14 13 / \ 17 14 
Dorsal tubular spinnerets short, numerous, broadly and irregularly scattered 
along the margins. 
Margin of lower portion of the thoracic area and also the unarticulate 
abdominal area with many short, capitate, tubular spinnerets, minute hairs 
and short tubercular processes. Rudimentary antennae placed near the 
margin in front, each with a short slender curved spine. Below the 
antennae, and towards the margin on each side, is a small and rather 
scattered group of minute tubercles (? spine bearing). Rostrum normal ; 
mentum extremely small ; filamentous loop scarcely extending beyond the 
latter. Length 0 # 75-l mm. 
Habitat , on peach and pear (Fletcher), G-izeh, Egypt, 1903. 
Notes . — The salient characteristics of this species are the prominent 
plates or squames at the upper part of the margin of the pygidium in the 
9 , and the strong thick ventral scale or pellicle of the puparium. 
In the absence of the male puparia it has been rather difficult to fix 
the generic position of this species, but the arrangement and character of 
