. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 376 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. Table 1. Length of body- Greatest breadth Number of legs Type 9 32 mm. 5 mm. 34 pairs Paratype 9 36 mm. 5 mm. 33 pairs Paratype cf 21 mm. 4 mm. 30 pairs Although there is a difference in proportions in the two females th paratype is more fully expanded and consequently appears to be of more slender form. The type female and the male are of very simik shape (see Plate 2, fig. 11). Coloration. All three specimens are considerably decolorized froi their preservation i
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 376 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. Table 1. Length of body- Greatest breadth Number of legs Type 9 32 mm. 5 mm. 34 pairs Paratype 9 36 mm. 5 mm. 33 pairs Paratype cf 21 mm. 4 mm. 30 pairs Although there is a difference in proportions in the two females th paratype is more fully expanded and consequently appears to be of more slender form. The type female and the male are of very simik shape (see Plate 2, fig. 11). Coloration. All three specimens are considerably decolorized froi their preservation in alcohol, but still show very distinctly the gener; color-pattern of the body. To the naked eye, the legs and a broa stripe directly above them are much lighter than the dorsal regie- exhibiting a dull yellowish gray tint with distinct purplish cast whk is much more distinct in one specimen. In all three, the legs a decidedly paler than the pleural stiipe. The dorsal region, includii two thirds of the animal when seen from above, is much darker thi the pleurae and differentiated into a complicated color-patter This consists in a light-colored median dorsal broad stripe, strong constricted between each body segment, and a narrow very da beaded or interrupted median line, the interruptions of which coinei with the constrictions of the light stripe. Examined under a mici scope it is seen that the enlargements of the dorsal light stripe a rbomboidal in form, but coalescent for about half their greatest wid along the intersegmental lines, so that their margins form a continue longitudinal serrate line. The dark color is confined to the spr between the body folds and does not include the apices of the papill even in the darkest portions of the stripe. The median blacker line is discontinuous, passing over only five to seven folds on en segment and is much more strongly pigmented on the three orfr' alternate folds of each segmental group. The dorsal color-patt i fades out on the head
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