Archive image from page 102 of Discovery reports (1936) Discovery reports discoveryreports12inst Year: 1936 Fig. 5. Harmothoe brevipalpa. Head from above. eyes in the middle of the lateral surfaces of the prostomium. The palps are normal, being about twice as long as the head (Fig. 5). The elytra have a few small papillae at the external border and are rather sparsely dotted with small conical tubercles. The dorsal bristles are numerous and strongly pectinated. The upper ventral bristles are elongate, slender, bidentate and with a long spinous region: more ventrally they become shorter and m
Archive image from page 102 of Discovery reports (1936) Discovery reports discoveryreports12inst Year: 1936 Fig. 5. Harmothoe brevipalpa. Head from above. eyes in the middle of the lateral surfaces of the prostomium. The palps are normal, being about twice as long as the head (Fig. 5). The elytra have a few small papillae at the external border and are rather sparsely dotted with small conical tubercles. The dorsal bristles are numerous and strongly pectinated. The upper ventral bristles are elongate, slender, bidentate and with a long spinous region: more ventrally they become shorter and more ex- panded distally. The middle ventral chaetae are bidentate. The bristles at the base of the neuropod are unidentate and with a short spinous region. Remarks. Augener has rightly pointed out that the new variety of H. impar described by me in 1930 differs from Bergstrom's H. brevipalpa only in the absence of the great reduction in size of the palps which Bergstrom found in his specimen and treated as an important specific differential. Augener further holds the view that the reduction of the palps in Bergstrom's specimen was an accidental condition due to loss followed by regeneration. As a number of specimens have been found since Bergstrom's original description which agree with his type except in the matter of the palps, I accept Augener's conclusion. My H. impar var. notialis therefore becomes a synonym of H. brevipalpa. Harmothoe brevipalpa, Bergstrom, var. ciliata, (Fig, 6). Occurrence. St. WS 583 (i). Varietal characters. The variety differs from the stem-form in that the outer and posterior borders of the elytra are furnished with a fringe of long cilia. Moreover, cilia are not confined to the marginal fringe but are found over a great part of the surface of the scale (Fig. 6), especially in the area adjoining the fringe. In other respects the variety and the stem-form are indistinguishable. Remarks. This variety is based on a single complete specimen mea
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