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1. Phrynus barbadensis. (Tab. X. figg. 6, 6 a, b 









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Tarantula barbadensis, Pocock, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv. p. 529, t. 40. fig. 1 (1893) * ; Ann. 



& Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xiv. p. 278 (1894) \ 

 Tarantula palmata barbadensis, Kraepelin, Das Tierr., Scorpiones et Pedipalpi, p. 244 (1899) \ 



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Neophrynus palmatus, var. barbadensis, Kraepelin, Abh. Ver. Hamburg, xiii. p. 33 (1895) 



Colour : carapace a uniform deep brown, passing into black, with four ill-defined marginal yellow spots ; 

 abdomen pale brownish-yellow or more frequently dark brownish-black variegated with yellow, a patch 



, of this colour being particularly noticeable round the muscular pit, which is black. Carapace very finely 

 granular, with some larger granules sparsely scattered ; anterior border lightly emarginate, denticulate, 

 not concealing the subfrontal process, which visibly projects downwards between the bases of the 



mandibles; the median tubercle about half its own longitudinal diameter from the edge; lateral eye- 

 clusters wide apart, each cluster further from the median tubercle than from the anterior margin, nearly 

 twice as far from the tubercle as from the lateral margin above the base of the anterior leg, and nearer to 

 the latter point than to the anterior margin ; median length of carapace about equal to length of tibia of 

 chela and a little less than twice that of femur of first leg ; width of carapace equal to length of tibia + 

 protarsus + | the tarsus (claw) of chela and about two-thirds the length of the femur of the first leg and 

 equal to the femur of the second leg. These proportions are approximately true for both sexes. Ctielcz 

 short and robust, the trochanter armed in front with 5 strong spines ; femur armed above and below with 

 5 strong spines and at least 2 smaller spines, the third inferior spine about as long as the fourth and 

 always noticeably longer than the fifth, and the first on the upperside half the length of the second ; 

 tibia armed above with 8 spines, the distal of which is quite small ; the second about two-thirds the 

 length of the third and as long as the fourth or fifth ; the longest of these spines less than the width of 

 the tibia ; the lower side of the segment armed with 5 spines — the first, third, and fifth short and sub- 

 equal, much shorter than the second and fourth, which are long and also subequal ; protarsus (hand) 

 armed above and below with 3 spines, the first and third on the lower side small, sometimes spinuliforrn ; 

 the first on the upperside small but remote from the base of the median long spine, the third longer, 

 about half the length of the second ; femur of chela coarsely granular above and below ; tibia finely 

 shagreened, but sparsely and weakly granular, its lower side bordered externally by a strong granular 

 ridge; outer side of hand smooth. Legs granular. Abdominal terga shagreened, beset with coarse 

 granules, a row of which runs along the posterior border; genital operculum in male rather large, 

 exceeding the length of the sternal area of the carapace ; sternal area of third abdominal somite straight 



from side'to side. 

 Measurements in mm.— Total length 19 ; width of carapace 11, median length 7 ; femur of chela (upperside) 5, 



tibia 7*5. 



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Hal. Panama, San Jose in the Pearl Is. {fide Kraepelin). — Colombia ; Venezuela ; 

 Trinidad ; Barbados. 



Phrynus parvulus, sp. n. (Tab. X. figg. 7, 7 a, b, 6 . 



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Resembling P. barbadensis in general form, but more conspicuously variegated, the carapace ornamented with 

 pale reddish patches on each side of the middle line, and the area between the eyes red; terga yellow 

 along the posterior border, and with a large crescentic yellow patch round the muscular impressions. 

 Carapace with its coarser granules more numerous, its frontal area narrower, the anterior border more 

 deeply emarginate, concealing the frontal process ; ocular tubercle at least its own diameter from the 

 anterior border ; lateral ocular clusters closer together, each cluster standing about equally distant from 

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the anterior border than from the median tubercle. Chelm of much the same length and form as in 

 P. barbadensis, but more granular, the inner surface being beset with fine close granulation, the trochanter 

 armed with only 4 spines, all of which except the inferior are small ; the third spine on the lower side of 

 the femur small, much shorter than the fourth, and only as long as the fifth ; the basal spine on the 

 upperside of the hand subtubercular and rising from the base of the median spine, not independently of 



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