Archive image from page 241 of Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena denkschriftender16medi Year: 1879 226 T- V- HODGSON, 226 Heteropallene dubitans. Specific characters. Body robust, with lateral processes of varying length and separated by narrow intervals. Cephalon directed downwards, widely expanded. Ocular tubercle stout, of small elevation, bearing four small and widely separated eyes. Palps reduced to a single jointed rudiment. Legs without auxiliary claws. The body has rather a
Archive image from page 241 of Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena denkschriftender16medi Year: 1879 226 T- V- HODGSON, 226 Heteropallene dubitans. Specific characters. Body robust, with lateral processes of varying length and separated by narrow intervals. Cephalon directed downwards, widely expanded. Ocular tubercle stout, of small elevation, bearing four small and widely separated eyes. Palps reduced to a single jointed rudiment. Legs without auxiliary claws. The body has rather a curious form, it is very robust with the. lateral processes long, separated by narrow but varying intervals. The posterior pairs are however very short and are practically fused, the abdomen projecting but a little beyond and embedded between them. The width of the body is greatest across the first two pairs and very much narrower across the posterior pair. In a natural position of the animal the length of the cephalic segment to the rest of the trunk is as 4 to 5. Immediately in front of the first pair of lateral processes the first segment of the body projects forwards in an angular manner and just behind this angle is a low but broad ocular tubercle bearing four diminutive eyes which are widely separated from each other, especially laterally. The cephalon is directed downwards at a considerable angle and dilated distally, the conspicuous neck is strengthened by a ridge passing forwards from the 'ocular pyramid'. All the lateral processes distally and the antero-lateral angles of the cephalon bear a few small setae. The proboscis is stout, short and rounded at the extremity, it is almost vertical in direction. The cheliferi are well developed; a short and stout scape arises from the antero-lateral margins of the cephalon and is setose distally. The chela is strong and setose, well on to the immoveable finger which also possesses a row of five progressively lengthening setae
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