NEW SPECIES OF DIPLOSPHYRONID PSEUDO- 
SCORPIONS FROM AUSTRALIA 1 
By C. Clayton Hoff 
Department of Zoology and Parasitology, 
Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College 
Through the kindness of Professor Nathan Banks, the 
writer has been able to study the collections of Australian 
and New Zealand pseudoscorpions deposited in the Mu- 
seum of Comparative Zoology. The majority of these 
collections were taken by members of the Harvard Aus- 
tralian Expedition in 1931 and 1932. 
The present paper is concerned only with the diplo- 
spliyronid pseudoscorpions. The specimens have been 
mounted on microscope slides after being cleared in beech- 
wood creosote. Measurements were made with a cali- 
brated micrometer ocular and are expressed in milli- 
meters. All of the specimens described here have been 
returned to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Family OLPIIDLE Chamberlin 1930 
Subfamily Olpiin^: Banks 1895 
Genus Olpium L. Koch 1873 
Olpium zealandiensis sp. nov. 
Figures 1-3 
Female. Body moderately slender ; carapace moder- 
ately brown, abdomen and legs light yellowish brown, 
palpi deep reddish brown. Length of body 2.7 mm. 
Carapace smooth except weakly developed netlike lines 
on the posterior one-third of the face and along the sides. 
Setae sparse, only two setae along the posterior margin of 
the carapace. The two eyes of each side separated by 
less than the diameter of the posterior eye. Lateral 
margins of the carapace weakly convex, posterior margin 
nearly straight. Length of carapace about 0.8 mm., great- 
est width across posterior margin and equal to 0.71 mm., 
ocular width about 0.5 nun. 
1 Published by a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Har- 
vard College. 
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