On the arachnida collected by the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by Eugène Simon.
- Eugène Simon
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: On the arachnida collected by the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula, 1899-1900 / by Eugène Simon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![utrinque tuberculo longo (parte cephalica haucl breviore) divaricato, luteo apice nigro, gracili, versus basin sensim angustiore, apice minute mucronato, oculos laterales gerente, insigniter instructa. Oculi medii antici minutissimi fere obsoleti, oculi laterales utrinque mediocres, longissime pediculati. Abdomen longum, teretiusculum, apice leviter convexum, omnino albiclo- testaceum. Chelce debiles, rufulae, intus prope apicem tuberculo nigro, obtuso, cariniformi et granuloso munitae. Partes oris, sternum pedesque longissimi pallide lutea, patellis leviter infuscatis, tibiis ad apicem minute fuscis. Pedes-maxillares maximi; trochantere parvo, subtus ad apicem apophysi lutea, erecta, acuta et sat longa armato; tibia longe et late ovata; tarso brevi, supra apice acuminato; apophysi fusco-rufula, longa, leviter sinuosa. 2 . Long. 6-7 mm.—Cephalothorax pallide luteus, paulo latior quam longior, utrinque ample rotundus. Oculi antici in lineam rectam, medii a sese contigui, minutissimi et punctiformes, a lateralibus late distantes (,spatio inter oculari oculo laterali multo latiore). Oculi laterales utrinque contigui, interior reliquis paulo minor. Tuberculum genitale magnum, latum sed apice acuminatum, postice verticale, triquetrum, planum, testaceum sed utrinque rufulum et leviter coriaceum. G-ua Glap (‘‘Dark Cave”), Biserat, Jalor. A P. podophthalmo E. Sim. (ex ins. Taprobane), cui sat affinis est, imprimis differt, tuberculis oculiferis apice minute ampliatis haud truncatis sed miuute et acute mucronatis, tarso pedum-maxillarium apice acuminato, haud truncato, etc. 17. Spermophora tessellata, sp. nov. $ . Long. 2 mm.—Cephalothorax pallide luteus, parte cephalica clypeoque infuscatis fere nigris, brevis, latior quam longior, utrinque ample rotundus, parte cephalica a thoracica sulco profundo semicirculari discreta, antice leviter elevata et latissime truncata, thoracica convexa, sulco longitudinali profundo secta. Oculi in turmas duas, inter se late remotas, ordinati, utrinque tres, duo exteriores inter se contigui, alter interior a reliquis leviter sejunctus, paulo minor et ovatus. Abdomen valde con- vexum et postice subverticale, albido-testaceum, maculis nigris iniquis, medianis majoribus et subquaclratis, parum regulariter seriatis, supra ornatum, subtus late nigricanti-plagiatum, mamillae prominentes. Chelce debiles, fuscce, antice opacce et leviter inaequales. Sternum latius quam longius, nigrum, sublceve. Partes oris et pedes-maxillares minutissimi, fusci. Pedes tenues et longi, minutissime rugosi, lutei, femoribus, praesertim posticis, prope apicem leviter infuscatis et subannulatis. Plaga genitalis maxima, medium ventris occupans, rufula et convexa sed in medio depressa, latior quam longior, utrinque oblique truncata, postice leviter prominula. Jalor: Biserat. A S. maculata Tborell, cui verisimiliter affinis est, differt parte thoracica haud vittata, tibiis pedum haud annulatis, etc. [6]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22406530_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
