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females except for absence of central gray carapace spot (Fig. 40). 
Legs reddish brown. Femur I with three or four prolateral macro- 
setae, tibia I with nine prolateral, six or seven dorsal, and three 
retrolateral macrosetae (Fig. 47). Abdomen with fewer guanine 
spots than female, dorsum and lateral surface tan; gray lateral 
stripe, gray venter and gray posterior tip (Fig. 48). Palpal femur 
with a large proximal retrolateral tubercle and small prolateral 
tubercle. Median apophysis bulb flat and elongate (0.16 mm long), 
terminating in a bent median apophysis spur (Figs. 46, 47). Unlike 
other members of the genus, the embolus loops twice around the 
median apophysis bulb before passing into a broad, weakly scle- 
rotized conductor. 
Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Papua New 
Guinea. 
Acknowledgements 
YDL and HWL thank the Wau Ecology Institute for use of the 
facilities in Wau, and S. Smith for making available the facilities at 
LAES (Kerevat). A portion of this study was supported by a 
Smithsonian Institute Scholarly Studies Research Award (to M. H. 
Robinson and YDL). A Small Projects Grant from the College of 
Arts and Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Inst, and State Univ. (to 
BDO) made the S.E.M. work possible. WGE thanks Carlos Rod- 
rigues, the Dixon Stroud family. Dr. Luis Arango, Dr. Madhav 
Gadgil, and A. J. T. Johnsingh for help and hospitality in the field 
and the Comite de Investigaciones of the Universidad del Valle, 
Cali, Colombia and the Vicerectoria de Investigaciones of the 
Universidad de Costa Rica for financial support. HWL thanks 
National Science Foundation grant DEB 76-15568 and DEB 
79-23004 for support and M. H. Robinson and B. Robinson for 
being instrumental in getting him to New Guinea and flavoring his 
stay with their hospitality and enthusiasm. We thank Frances 
Murphy, V. Todd Davies, Joseph Beatty and James Berry for 
allowing us to use their unpublished observations and M. H. 
Robinson and B. Robinson for their comments on and criticism of 
the manuscript. 
