. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Myriopoda of South Africa. 121 behind. 93-105 pairs of legs. Head-plate broader than long, bluntly conical in front, smooth, not punctate, hairless. No frontal sulcus. Antennae awl-shaped, very thick and somewhat compressed dorso-ventrally at the base, tapering gradually, very short, reaching to the anterior margin of the maxillipedes. The first six joints with dorsally and laterally dispersed hairs, ven- trally hairless, the remaining joints with dense, minute hairs, without long bristles. Clype
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. The Myriopoda of South Africa. 121 behind. 93-105 pairs of legs. Head-plate broader than long, bluntly conical in front, smooth, not punctate, hairless. No frontal sulcus. Antennae awl-shaped, very thick and somewhat compressed dorso-ventrally at the base, tapering gradually, very short, reaching to the anterior margin of the maxillipedes. The first six joints with dorsally and laterally dispersed hairs, ven- trally hairless, the remaining joints with dense, minute hairs, without long bristles. Clypeus with moderately dense, short, and fine hairs, not elevated in the middle. Labrum consisting of one piece nearly completely fused with the cly- peus, rounded and weakly prominent in the middle, the free margin with numerous teeth, somewhat blunt in the middle, pointed laterally (fig. 464). Mandible with 7-8 pectinate lamellae, the outer 2-3 somewhat irregular and close together. Each lamella long and slender, its axis on that of the whole mandible. The teeth strong and blunt (text-fig. 30). The inner lamella does not differ in colour or size of teeth. First maxillae (text-fig. 31) with complete syn- coxite, the coxal processes pubescent, not separ- ated by a fold. On each side one broad lobe covered with microscopical scales (fig. 462). The two joints of the telopodite completely fused. In the middle of the lateral margin a similar lobe {) to that on the coxa ; the top of the telopodite pube- scent. Second maxillae (fig. 461) densely pubescent in all parts. Syncoxite, telopodite 3-jointed, short, claw pectinate in the distal half (fig. 463). Coxae of maxillipedes (text-fig. 32) short and broad, without chitinous lines ; the anterior margin evenly sinuate. All the joints without teeth, the first three joints of the telopodite very short; the tarsungulum very large, the claw very strong, but not going beyond the frontal margin. The first tergite has a transverse groove or
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