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Summary[edit] Description: English: Plate XI. Fig. 1. Bryiobia f (or Penthalwus ?) iveyerensis Pack.— la, end of first leg; 16, end of second leg Fig. 2. Oribata alala Pack. — Dorsal view ; 2a, the same, ventral view. Emerton del. Fig. 3. Chthonius packardii Hagen. — 3a, drawn from a younger specimen (Emerton del) ; ?i tueiicered (mandibles) ; 3c, one of the cheliceres, showing the coinb-like appendage, or serrula (s.) within at the base; 3d, the same enlarged ; 3e, barbed setae on the chelicera ; 3/, a pedipalp (chela) ; 3g, one of the first pair of legs ; 3/t, end of 3g ; 3i, a fourth leg ; 'Sj, end of a fourth leg. Author del. Fig. 4. Chthonius ccecus Pack. — 4a, cheliceres of right side; 46, pedipalp (chela) ; 4c, a "finger" of 46. Date: 1888. Source: Packard, A. S. (1888) The cave fauna of North America, with remarks on the anatomy of the brain and origin of the blind species. Washington, National Academy of Sciences,1888. Author: Alpheus Spring Packard.

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