4 
I. Bartsch 
(Figure 14) with 5 pm long dorsomedial solenidion; 
apex with one slender ventral seta and a rather 
stout lateral pas. Tarsi III and IV (Figure 15) each 
with three dorsal setae and long medial pas. All 
tarsi with carpite-like sclerite. 
Paired claws on tarsus I distinctly smaller than 
on succeeding tarsi. Neither accessory process nor 
pecten present. Paired claws on succeeding tarsi 
with accessory process and small pectines with 
delicate tines. 
Male 
Not seen. 
Remarks 
Agauopsis aequilivestita is closely related to A. 
punctata Bartsch, a species living on the eastern 
coast of northern Africa (Bartsch 1981). Differences 
are: length of AD relative to that of PD larger in A. 
aequilivestita than in A. punctata; setae ds-2 in A. 
aequilivestita inserted level with anterior OC, in A. 
punctata distinctly anterior to that level and 
removed from posterior angles of AD. 
Agauopsis australiensis sp. nov. 
Figures 16-38 
Holotype 
9, Cape Vlamingh, Fish Hook Bay, Rottnest 
Island, Western Australia, Australia, Amphiroa sp. 
and other corallines, from beneath rock platform, 
just beneath low water edge, 15 January 1991 
(WAM 96/157). 
Paratypes 
Australia: Western Australia: 1 8, data same as 
for holotype (WAM 96/158); 1 9, data as for 
holotype (ANIC); 1 8, 1 deutonymph, 1 
protonymph, 1 larva, data as for holotype (WAM 
96/159-162). 1 9,1 8, data as for holotype (ZIMH 
A49/95). 
Other Material Examined 
Australia: Western Australia: 5 9,2 8,2 
deutonymphs, 2 protonymphs, 1 larva. Fish Hook 
Bay, Cape Vlamingh, red algae Liagora sp. from 
beneath edge of rocky platform, 9 January 1991; 1 
8 , Nancy Cove, seagrass Amphibolis sp. with 
epiflora and fauna, 1 m depth, 12 January 1991; 2 
8, Little Armstrong Bay, seagrass Amphibolis sp., 1 
m depth, 16 January 1991; 1 9, Bickley Point, from 
epiflora and fauna on seagrass Amphibolis sp., 1-2 
m depth, 18 January 1991. All in the author's 
collection. 
Description 
Female 
Idiosoma 421-458 pm long, holotype 430 pm 
long. Few coarse and parallel striae of 
membraneous integument between large dorsal 
plates. Plates with raised, costa-like areas. 
Tegument of plates (Figure 16) traversed by 
canaliculi. Canaliculi within raised areas larger and 
arranged more densely than in remainder of plates; 
generally six to nine canaliculi assembled to groups 
(rosette pores); beneath each such group an 
alveolus present. Remainder of plate very faintly 
reticulated. AD fused with dorsal portion of 
anterior epimeral plate which in turn is prolonged 
into a bluntly ending frontal spine (Figure 17). The 
plate, from tip of frontal spine to posterior margin, 
148 pm long, 139 pm wide. AD with pair of 
longitudinal costae, each two alveoli wide- 
Integument within transverse bar somewhat 
thicker. Pair of gland pores in lateral margin of AC> 
immediately anterior to costae. OC 110 pm long, 73 
pm wide. Two comeae near lateral margin. Medial 
to comeae triangular raised area with numerous 
groups of canaliculi present; alveoli lacking- 
Scattered canaliculi, a gland pore and a pore 
canaliculus present distolateral to posterior cornea. 
PD 248 pm long, 165 pm wide. Anterior margin 
rounded. Posterior portion of PD and anal plate 
fused. Pair of distinctly raised costae one to two 
alveoli wide. Lateral margin of plate somewhat 
thicker than remainder of plate but without alveoli. 
Pair of small gland pores in anterior PD, another 
pair in posterior PD. Dorsal setae ds-1 on AD, ds-2 
in anterior edge of OC, ds-3 on small platelets 
within membraneous integument between AD and 
PD, ds-4 in margin of PD level with insertion of 
legs III, ds-5 on PD lateral to costae, and ds-6 in 
posterior PD. 
Ventral plates porose. AE 155 pm long, 278 pm 
wide. Pair of epimeral pores represented by small, 
5 pm long slits at the surface and 5 pm wide sacculi 
in deeper integumental layers. Three pairs of setae 
as illustrated (Figure 18). PE with one dorsal and 
three ventral setae. GA 176 pm long, 161 pm wide. 
GO 65 pm long, 25 pm wide. Interval between 
anterior margin of GA and that of GO somewhat 
larger than length of GO. Proximal pair of pgs 
inserted slightly anterior level with anterior edge 
of GO. The other two pairs of setae near posterior 
portion of GO. 
Gnathosoma 115 pm long, 78 pm wide. With 
coarse porosity in ventral and marginal portions of 
gnathosomal base and also within pharyngeal plate 
(Figure 19). Tectum truncate (Figure 20). Rostrum 
and palps shorter than gnathosomal base. Pair of 
long maxillary setae inserted on the base, another 
pair in distal third of rostrum; apex of rostrum 
with two pairs of rather long rostral setae. Median 
spine on P-3 longer than P-3. P-4 with two setae in 
basal whorl, one of which is shorter, the other 
longer than P-4. Chelicera slender (Figure 21), 
those of holotype 130 pm long, claw 21 pm long. 
