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merous specimens are also in the collection from Jamaica., W. I. A. 
few additions should be made to my original description of the species 
as follows: When the holotype was described it was noted that the 
right palp was poorly developed. At that time the condition was 
regarded as an anomaly and should have been mentioned but this 
was inadvertently omitted. Figures 10-12, drawn from a male col- 
lected in Jamaica, will show the essential features of both left and 
right palpal tarsi. Very fine striations on the prolateral surface of 
the left palpal tarsus were first seen in a male from the Panama 
Canal Zone but these have now been observed in numerous males 
from Panama and Jamaica, W. I. (Fig. 10). These striations have 
also been found on the left palpal tarsi of Scaphiella scutata sp. nov. 
from Jamaica, W. I. Variations in the appearance of the epigynal 
area have been noted during the examination of numerous females; 
Figures 13-14 are provided to illustrate two of these variations. 
Records. One male was collected at El Volcan, Panama in 
August, 1950. All others in the collection^ now numbering several 
hundred, have been collected in numerous localities in the Canal 
Zone from 1950 to 1964. I also now have numerous specimens of 
both sexes from Jamaica, W. I. These have been taken in the fol- 
lowing named parishes during my three visits to this island since 
1950: Clarendon, Kingston and, especially, St. Andrew. 
Scaphiella kalunda sp. nov. 
Figures 15-21 
Holotype. The male holotype is from St. John, U. S. Virgin 
Islands, July 23, 1966. The name of the species is an arbitrary com- 
bination of letters. 
Description. Total length about 1.48 mm (cephalothorax and 
abdomen detached but in good condition). Carapace 0.6 mm long; 
O.44 mm wide opposite interval between first and second coxae 
where it is widest; surface smooth and shiny; without a median 
thoracic groove or pit ; posterior border recurved ; gently arched from 
PME along middorsal region to beginning of posterior declivity. 
Eyes: six in two rows and in a, compact group as usual; posterior 
row slightly procurved viewed from above; ratio of eyes ALE : 
PME : PEE = 5:4: 3.5 ; some irregularity and asymmetry noted; 
ALE separated by about two fifths of their diameter (Fig. 15); 
ALE separated from PLE only by a line and from PME by about 
one fifth of their diameter; PME contiguous at one point and barely 
separated from PLE. Height of clypeus equal to nearly 1.5 times 
the diameter of ALE. Chelicerae, maxillae and lip apparently quite 
