. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 504 Annals of the South African Museum. Ceratomontia cheliplus Roewer. (Text-fig. 88.) 1931. Roewer, Zeitschr. fur wissenschaftl. Zoologie, Bd. 138, p. 158, fig. 6. The following is a translation of Roewer's description. Dimensions.—Length of body 3; legs I-IV, 4-5 : 7-2 : 5 : 6-8 mm. Ocular tubercle directed forwards, terminating in a blunt point, granular. Anterior margin of carapace demarcated by a transverse furrow and provided on each side of the ocular tubercle with 3 forwardly directed teeth.
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 504 Annals of the South African Museum. Ceratomontia cheliplus Roewer. (Text-fig. 88.) 1931. Roewer, Zeitschr. fur wissenschaftl. Zoologie, Bd. 138, p. 158, fig. 6. The following is a translation of Roewer's description. Dimensions.—Length of body 3; legs I-IV, 4-5 : 7-2 : 5 : 6-8 mm. Ocular tubercle directed forwards, terminating in a blunt point, granular. Anterior margin of carapace demarcated by a transverse furrow and provided on each side of the ocular tubercle with 3 forwardly directed teeth. Surface of carapace, scute, and free tergites of abdomen uniformly covered with fine and close granula- tion ; areas I-V of dorsal scute clearly defined, and as in free tergites I-III provided with a transverse row of tubercules. Free sternites of abdomen each with a transverse row of granules ; surfaces of coxae I-IV smooth matt without marginal rows of tubercles, anterior margin of coxa I with 2 teeth, coxa II at its posterior apex and coxa IV at its anterior apex provided with a group of tubercles. Chelicerae : segment I with a distinct dorsal en- largement which bears 1 tooth on its distal third, otherwise unarmed; seg- ment II provided anteri- FiG. 88.—Ceratomontia cheliplus RoeM^er. (^ : seen with some scattered from the side. -^ . -, , ? -, granules and posteriorly above the immovable claw with a thickened tubercle. Palps : tro- chanter above with 2, below with 1 tooth ; femur above with a longitudinal row of 5 teeth, apically on each side of it some small scattered teeth, on its inner side apically with 1 tooth, below with 3 basal teeth, the one situated nearest the base bifid ; patella to tarsus smooth above, patella on inner side with 1 tooth, tibia on inner side below with 4, on outer side below with 8 blunt teeth ; tarsus below on each aide with 3 blunt teeth, the basal one on the outer side unusually stout and incompletely bifid. Legs unarmed, sparsely gr
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