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Show 876 MR. R. I. F0C0CK ON SCORPIONS, PEDIPALPS, [Nov. 14, yellow hairs ; mandibles, maxillae, and labium mahogany-brown ; sternum and legs much the same colour as the carapace; femora redder below, indistinctly spotted above; protarsi covered above with a clothing of greyish hairs, the rest of the segments scantily hairy; abdomen covered with brightish yellow hairs, marked above and at the sides with short darker stripes and with a darker median longitudinal stripe emphasized by three pairs of black spots ; dark blackish brown over the spinners. Carapace a little longer than tibia of 4th leg, equal to the length of its protarsus, a little longer than patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp, and a little shorter than protarsus and tarsus of 3rd leg; its width about equal to tibia of 4th leg, and to patella, tibia, and tarsus of palp. Eyes of posterior line subequally spaced, space between the medians almost equal to twice their diameter ; ocular quadrangle parallel-sided and about as long as wide; the anterior median eyes a little larger than the posterior median, about a diameter apart, less than a diameter from the anterior laterals, which they equal in size and with which they are in the same straight line ; clypeus less than diameter of anterior median eye. Legs long and slender ; tibia? of legs armed with 11 spines, the odd spine being in the dorsal middle line ; patellae armed with an anterior and a posterior spine ; protarsi of 1st and 2nd scopulate fo the base, of the 2nd less closely than of the 1st; basal portion of 3rd scarcely scopulate ; 4th protarsus only scantily scopulate in its distal half. Vulva as in figs. 12, 12 a, Plate LVI. Measurements in millimetres.-Total length 14; length of carapace 6, width 5*5; length of 1st leg 28, of 2nd 29-5, of 3rd 20, of 4th 23*5 ; patella and tibia of 1st 10*5, of 4th 8. d. Colour. Carapace yellow, clothed with ferruginous hairs and mottled with white bands and spots ; legs mottled with white blotches and bands; upperside of abdomen variegated with white and olive-green hairs. Carapace distinctly longer than broad, the length a little less than tibia of 3rd and than half patella 4- tibia of 1st leg. Eyes of posterior line practically straight; auterior medians about half their diameter apart and a little nearer to the laterals, which are distinctly smaller. Legs moderately long; 2nd surpassing 1st by barely half its tarsus; 3rd slightly surpassing tibia of 2nd and middle of protarsus of 4th; 2nd a little less than six times, 4th a little less than five times, as long as carapace ; tibia? with a pair of apical inferior spines ; patellae with anterior and posterior spine. Palp with tibia considerably longer than patella, armed with 5 long spines; the apophysis short at the base, its distal portion bent downwards nearly at right angles and forming a slender spiniform process; tarsus oval, about as long as patella and tibia. |
