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relative to anterior gland pore of PD. A. 
australiensis has a pair of gland pores distinctly 
anterior to the ds-4; in A. similis, the gland pores 
level with the ds-4, and in the species (a single 
female) from Philip Island, Victoria, the ds-4 insert 
anterior to the gland pores. 
Agauopsis elaborata sp. nov. 
Figures 39^49 
Holotype 
9, Nancy Cove, Rottnest Island, Western 
Australia, Australia, corallines from rock platform, 
20 January 1991 (WAM 96/163). 
Description 
Female 
Idiosoma 310 pm long. Dorsal plates (Figure 39) 
with prominently raised porose areolae with 
modified rosette pores. Rosette pores with tube¬ 
like ostium, 4 pm deep, 2 pm in diameter; adjacent 
to ostia one to four canaliculi in deeper 
integumental layers. Remainder of plates with 
more or less distinct reticulate sculpturing. 
Anterior margin of idiosoma rounded. An 
anterior dome-like area with 16 rosette pores; 
posterior pair of domes with about 30 pores each. 
AD fused with dorsal portion of anterior epimeral 
plate. Anterior plate, from anterior margin of 
idiosoma to posterior margin of the plate, 98 pm 
long, 87 pm wide. OC 95 pm long, 65 pm wide. 
Raised rounded areola, 25 pm in diameter, with 
about 20 rosette pores; dark-brown eye pigment 
beneath that areola. PD 170 pm long, 165 pm wide. 
From margins of deeply excavated median portion 
of the plate 25 pm long epicuticular filaments 
extending into the cavity (Figure 40). Pair of raised 
porose areolae swayed; widened on level with 
insertion of legs III, and dome-like on level with 
insertion of legs IV and in posterior PD. When 
focussing on deeper integumental parts, elaborate 
skeletal bars seen (Figure 40). Cavity beneath 
dome-like structures filled with epicuticular 
filaments. Pair of gland pores present in lateral 
margin of costae on level with insertion of leg III, 
another pair of pores in medial margin of costae on 
a level with insertion of leg IV. Setae ds-1 inserted 
within plate formed by dorsal fusion of anterior 
epimeral plate, ds-2 on OC at anterior margin of 
dome-like areola, ds-3 in anterolateral margin of 
PD. Setae ds-4, ds-5 and ds-6 enlarged, almost 50 
pm long, directed towards the median cavity; ds-4 
level with insertion of legs III, ds-5 level with legs 
IV, and ds-6 inserted posteriorly where PD and 
anal plate are fused. 
Ventral plates (Figures 41) with distinctly 
demarcated porose areolae, each pore represented 
by small tube-like ostium which in deeper 
integumental layers is accompanied by two to four 
canaliculi. AE with three pairs of porose areolae, 
one marginal, one circular and one elongate 
crescentic one. PE with two marginal areolae and 
GA with pair of oblong areolae. Remainder of plate 
almost smooth. AE with very large cervical 
epimeral processes; coxal epimeral processes small, 
lamelliform. Insertion of trochanters II partly 
obscured by lamellar epimeral processes. AE 90 
pm long, 197 pm wide, with three pairs of ventral 
setae; epimeral pores reduced. PE with one dorsal 
and three ventral setae. GA 140 pm long, 123 pm 
wide, with two pairs of pgs (a third pair thought to 
be present but obscured by protruding area with 
GO). GO 38 pm long, 35 pm wide. Interval 
between anterior margin of GA to that of GO 
equalling two times length of GO. Genital sclerites 
with two pairs of small subgenital setae. Ovipositor 
in rest extending beyond anterior margin of GO. 
Gnathosoma 90 pm long. Base with pair of 
porose areolae, each areola with 10-11 modified 
rosette pores (Figure 42). Tectum truncate. 
Rostrum shorter than gnathosomal base, palps as 
long as base. Rostrum rather slender. P-3 5 pm 
long; its medial 2 pm long spine with serrate 
truncate apex (Figure 43). Medial seta on P-4 more 
than twice length of P-4. 
Telofemur I (Figure 44) with two adjacent short 
and rounded basiventral lamellae, an almost 5 pm 
high dorsal lamella, two spine-like ventromedial 
lamellae and a pointed medial articular lamella. 
Lateral flank with reticulate sculpturing. Legs II-IV 
(Figures 45 - 47) slender; telofemora II-IV each 
with elongate but narrow ventrolateral lamella. 
Tibia II shorter than telofemur II; tibiae III and IV 
as long as telofemora respectively. Articular 
lamellae on tibiae II-IV lacking. Length of tarsi 
same or slightly less than that of tibiae. Tarsi II-IV 
with 12-15 pm long and 3-5 pm high membranes 
of claw fossae. Number of setae, from trochanter to 
tarsus: leg I, 1, 2, 6, 5, 9, 10; leg II, 1, 2, 6, 5, 6, 6; leg 
III 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5; leg IV, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5. Ventral spine 
of telofemur I 13 pm long and placed on ventral 
lamella; ventromedial spines lacking. Ventral spine 
on tibia I 27 pm long, i.e. same as height of that 
segment; two ventromedial spines 6 and 5 pm 
long. Tarsus I with 5 pm long ventromedial spine. 
All spines with blunt, dentate tip. Succeeding legs 
lack spines. Dorsal setae on telofemora I (Figure 
48) and II and basifemora III and IV clefted. Tarsus 
I with doubled pas; slender solenidion 10 pm long, 
inserted between dorsolateral seta and lamella 
with vestigial famulus (Figure 49). Tarsus II with 
three dorsal, one ventral seta and pair of single 
parambulacral setae. Tarsi III and IV each with 
three dorsal setae, a seta-like medial and a spine¬ 
like lateral pas. 
Tarsus I with rather small paired claws which 
