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MEMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
segment. It is of typical shape for the genus except that the distal third is more 
than usually tubular. The proboscis, at about one-fourth the distance from its 
base, is encircled by a shallow groove. 
Figure 2. — -Asoorhyn'chus melwardi spec. nov. Holotyp'e female ; lateral view with legs, 
ovigers, and part of the palps omitted. 
The abdomen is long and slender. It is slightly curved with the convexity 
upward. Posteriorly it is directed somewhat downward. The chelophores are 
represented by their scapes only, and these are undivided. There is no trace 
whatever of the chela joint. Spines and long hairs are present on the scapes. 
These are better developed in the case of the male than of the female. The palps 
are ten-jointed. The ovigers are ten-jointed. The final joint has a small 
chelate extremity. 
Legs : — The coxic have the usual arrangement. The first and third are 
short, the third being the longer of the two, while the second is about one and 
a-half times as long as the first. Of the remaining joints of the legs the first tibia 
is the longest, being about four times the length of the first coxa and a little 
longer than the femur. The length of the second tibia may vary in the same 
individual. In the leg drawn in text-figure 3 this joint is about equal to the 
femur, but sometimes it has a length more nearly approaching that of the first 
tibia. At the distal extremity of the femur there is a prominent process well 
provided with spines. There is a similar process, somewhat smaller, at the end of 
the first tibia. These processes are present in both sexes. 
In this species the trunk and appendages are extremely spinous, this 
condition being much more evident in the male than in the female. The general 
arrangement, however, is the same in each. There is, first, a series of short spines 
which range themselves laterally along the trunk, even appearing at the sides of 
the neck and also springing from the base of the dorsal trunk elevations. From 
the trunk they arc continued on to the crurigers, where they have a very regular 
arrangement and arc better developed on the anterior surfaces than on the 
posterior. 
There are also to be found very much longer hairs arranged in groups of 
two or three or more. Such a group is present on each of the dorsal trunk 
elevations, particularly well developed on the most posterior. They are also to be 
found at the extremities of the crurigers, on the dorsal side of the abdomen, and 
on the chelophore scapes. 
The above description applies to the male holotype. In the female allotype 
the arrangement of the spines and of the hairs is about the same, but they are 
much- smaller, so that the female seems to be almost smooth. 
