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R. I. POCOCK.

practically clawless because Thorell detected a minute clawlike structure at the tip of the seventh (tarsal) segment in

Fig. 1.—Restoration of Palæoplionus nuncius.
Dorsal view (after Thorell).

the Gotland specimen. Although no trace of such a structure was found in the Scotch fossil, no great value must be