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Show 422 MR. A. D. MICHAEL ON [June 3, There are a few hairs similar to the last-named round the hind margin. Genital and anal plates small, projecting, close together. I have only one specimen, which came from the Gorge de la Chiffa, Blidah. DAM-dRUS FLAGELLIFER, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 2.) Length about *65 millim. Breadth about -40 millim. Length of legs, 1st and 3rd pairs, about "60 millim. „ „ 2nd pair about "45 millim. „ „ 4th „ „ -85 „ Colour very dark brown. Texture Bmooth, not polished, veiy finely punctured; this, however, is difficult to see in unprepared specimens. Cephalothorax somewhat spotted but without true markings, considerably less wide than the abdomen. Rostrum rather small, almost pointed. Two pairs of rostral hairs, of which the hinder is the thicker. The cephalothorax widens suddenly behind the rostrum, forming a large, almost triangular projection, to the outer and hinder face of which the first pair of legs are articulated. There is another large projection between the first and second legs; it has a rounded lobe posteriorly, to the hinder edge of which the second leg is articulated, and a large tooth anteriorly curving forward and outward. Pseudostigmata far apart, dorsal, slightly raised. Pseudostigmatic organs long, setiform, flexible ; generally undulated or curled toward the distal extremity. Interlamellar hairs short, curved, almost close to the pseudostigmata. Legs of moderate length for the genus, joints clavate, the femora suddenly so, not gradually thickened. There are three or four moderately curved hairs arranged in a whorl on almost every joint; the upper hair of the whorl in the femora and genuals of the fourth legs is markedly larger than any of the others, and indeed these hairs, which are whip-like with flexible curled or undulated ends, are much the largest hairs on the creature, except the pseudostigmatic organs, and form a conspicuous feature of the species. Claws monodactyle. Abdomen elliptical, without markings. There are two longitudinal rows of curved hairs of moderate length on the notogaster; these hairs diminish slightly in length from the anterior to the posterior margin. There is also a pair of similar hairs on the anterior edge, close to the median line, directed forward over the cephalothorax, and a pair on the hind margin sharply hooked outward. Genital and anal plates close together, the latter much longer in form than the former. Two specimens from the cedar-forest of Teniet-el-Ahd. EREM._ETJS FIMBRIATUS, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 6.) Length about "38 millim. Breadth about -24 millim. |
