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Legs moderately short, slenderer than the spring; tarsal claws strongly built, 
sharp, and nearly twice as long as the empodial appendage. (‘Text-fig. 7.) 
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Fig. 7.—Arrhopalites davidi n.sp, Claw and empodial appendage of hind foot. (x 368.) 
Ventral tube with long, cylindrical arms of a very pale yellowish grey 
colour; when fully extended, these arms are about as long as the hind legs, 
but of somewhat stouter cross-section than the hind femora. The apex of each 
arm is sharply truncated, each arm being a hollow cylinder serving as the opening 
of a gland. 
Spring 0-7 mm. long, the dens and mucro together only slightly longer than 
the manubrium, as measured in the backwardly directed position in the dead insect. 
Mucro relatively long and slender, about 140 long, shaped as shown in Text-fig. 8. 
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Vig. 8.—Arrhopalites davidi n.sp.——Mucro and distal end of dens. (X 368.) 
Golouration.—Deep purplish-black above pale-greyish below; the ventral 
tube very pale yellowish-grey, the tarsal claws and the mucrones of the spring 
almost colourless, 
