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Heterophrynus chiracanthus, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xiv. p. 287 (1894) . 



Colour a tolerably uniform blackish-brown ; legs redder. Carapace sparsely covered with coarse granules ; 

 the anterior border transverse, denticulated ; the median ocular tubercle high, about its own diameter 

 from the margin ; the lateral eye-clusters not widely separated, only a little further from each other than 

 either is from the lateral margin, and about equidistant from the anterior border and from the median 

 tubercle. Chelrn very long and slender, coarsely granular, the tibia twice and a half times the width 

 of the carapace ; the trochanter armed with four long spines ; femur with six spines above and five below, 

 the distal in each case small, third on upper and first on lower the longest, and considerably exceeding 

 the height of the segment ; tibia armed with seven upper and six lower spines, the proximal small, 

 spinuliform, the two distal small and subequal ; hand granular above and below, smooth externally. 



Measurements in mm.— Total length 30; median length of carapace 11, width 16-5; femur of chela 39; 

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Hah. Central America (fide Kraepelin). 





The description given above and the figures 1, 1 a on Tab. XII. have been taken 

 from the type specimen of the species which is in the British Museum. 



Dr. Kraepelin describes all the species of this genus, some five or six in number, 

 under the name Admetus pumilio, C. L. Koch, and amongst the localities cites 

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which, from the figure and description, cannot be assigned 



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