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largest being the one measured, and the 



eaching a length of 14 mm., with 







the carapace 6*5 mm. in width, and the tibia of the chela 4 mm. long 





Apart from these examples, there are three in the British Museum, the type and 



others, which are merely labelled "W. Coast of Amer 



Hence the discovery 







of the exact distribution of this species is of much 







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of the structural features of the type of either Phrynus fuscimanus or P. mexicamis, 





Kraepelin describes the following as the only species of this type represented in 





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exico : 



Phrynus fuscimanus, C. L. Koch. 



Syn. Phrynus fuscimanus } C. L. Koch, Die Arachn. xv. p. 67, fig. 1463 (1848). 



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Admetus fuscimanus, C. L. Koch, Uebersicht Archn. Syst. v. p. 81 (1850). 





Phrynus mexicanus, Bilimek, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvii. p. 231 (1867). 

 Neophrynus fuscimanus, Kraepelin, Abh. Ver. Hamb. xiii. p. 25 (1895). 









Tarantula fuscimanus, Kraepelin, Das Tierr., Scorpiones et Pedipalpi, p. 243 (1899) 



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It is impossible even to guess how many species are here confused in the above-given 











synonymy. The description, covering three pages quarto in length, furnishes no clue 

 as to whether the specimens described presented the characters distinctive of II aztecus^ 





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or H. Icevifrons, or H. rajptator, or of all three ; and no detailed diagnosis is furnished 







although both were available for the purpose. Had this been done it would have been 



possible to hazard an opinion as to whether either or both of these names, or neither, 











is to be applied to one of the three species I have described in the foregoing pages. 





The type of Phrynus fuscimanus, said to come from North America, was immature, 

 to judge from the figure. The spines on the chelae appear to be long. Hence 



the species may prove to be identical with either II. raptator or H. lcevifro?is, or to 











belong to an allied form. Bilimek's species, too, cannot be classified from the 





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description. The specimens came from the Cave of Cacahuamilpa, in Mexico. The 

 localities given by Kraepelin for the twenty-three specimens procured for his "Re- 





vision 



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are Yucatan, Cozumel Island, Guatemala, and Panama. Since H. raptator 



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occurs in Yucatan, it is probable that specimens of that species furnished some of the 

 material whereon the voluminous disquisition above referred to w 7 as based. 

























ACANTHOPHRYNUS. 





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xiii. p. 21 (1895) (nom. praeocc). 







Acanthophrynus, Kraepelin, Das Tierr., Scorpiones et Pedipalpi, p. 241 (1899). 



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The anterior border of the 





carapace is armed with long spiniform teeth, which extend on to the lateral margin of the cephalic 

 portion, gradually diminishing in size from before backwards. The anterior surface of the femur of the 



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