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Show 396 MR. R. I. POCOCK OX SOME [Dec. 2, patella and tibia ; a few low tubercles on the trochanter. Coxye of 1st and 2nd legs with a few low tubercles; trochanters of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd legs with a few spines. Measurements in mm.:-Total length 8 ; length of carapace (from anterior border to second groove behind tubercle) 2 ; basal segment of mandible 3'5, second segment 5, width of latter 1'6 ; length of palp 9. Loc. Cape Colony : Jansenville (Miss Leppan). Differs from R. spenceri and crassus, to which it is nearly related, by the presence of a long porrect frontal spine, &c. P h a l a x g iu m (R h am p s ix it u s ) l e ig h i , sp. n. (Text-fig. 8 0 .) S . Colour uniformly blackish brown throughout. Dorsal integument finely and closely granular ; carapace (text-fig. 80, A) with an oblique row of small tubercles on its lateral slope, a few marginal and a small one in the middle of the anterior border. Ocular tubercle about 1 }7 times its diameter from the anterior border, very high, surmounted by three long subequal, subequally spaced spines, the anterior and the posterior rising at nearly the same level and above the centre of the eye. Dorsal scute of abdomen with segmental rows of sharp tubercles. Mandibles (text-fig. 80, A) long, but variable in length, and Text-fig. 80. Phalangium (Rhampsinitus) leighi, $ $ . A. Carapace and mandible of male. B. Mandible of female. slender, like those of Macropsalis, studded with spicules, which are larger, more numerous, and closer-set on the 2nd than on the 1st segment. Palpi unarmed, shortly hairy, femur subequal to the patella -f tibia; tarsus rather longer. Legs with spicular femora. $ . A little larger than J , yellowish white below. Mandibles quite small and smooth, except for a few apical tubercles on the basal segment (text-fig. 80, B). |
