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margin of eyebrow ill defined; lower margin of orbit deeply turreted. 

 Sides of carapace nearly smooth, under part coarsely tuberculate. 



Large cheliped of male very strong ; merus, carpus, and manus un- 

 evenly tuberculate and granulate; antero-distal angle of merus fur- 

 nished with a tuft of hair ; upper margin of palm armed with a few 

 blunt spines or teeth. Fingers over one and one-half times as long 

 as palm, measured through the middle; immovable finger wider and 

 smoother than dactylus, and widest in the middle, its granules grow- 

 ing regularly larger toward end of finger ; outer surface of dactylus 

 a little convex especially proximally, and with two longitudinal rows 

 of coarser granules, one on upper edge and the other above the mid- 

 dle. Fingers with a wide gape in basal half. Inner surface smooth, 

 except for a strong, right-angled ridge at middle of palm and two 

 diverging ridges at base of dactylus. 



Merus joints of legs roughened, upper margin serrulate, lower 

 tuberculate; propodi and dactyli with fringed margins. 



Carapace of female narrower, sides less converging, lower surface 

 more hairy. 



Measurements. Male (14874), length of carapace 21.5, width of 

 same 31.3 mm. Female (21387), length of carapace 18, width of 

 same 24.1 mm. 



Range. From Portugal to north and west coasts of Africa, as 

 far as Algiers and Angola. The only records of occurrence in 

 America are by Miers, 1 "West Indies (Frazer) in the British 

 Museum collection," and by Kingsley. 2 "(?) Bahia! E. Wilson 

 (Phila. Acad.)." 



Material examined. 



Dakar, West Africa; May 3, 1892; O. F. Cook; 2 males, 1 female 

 (21387). 



Rock Spring, Monrovia; April, 1894; O. F. Cook and G. N. Col- 

 lins; 4 males, 2 females (20575). 



Mouth of Mesnrado River, Monrovia; O. F. Cook; 3 males 

 (20669). 



Monrovia; April, 1894; O. F. Cook and G. N. Collins; 1 male 

 (20576). 



Baya River, Elmina, Ashantee; Nov. 27, 1889: W. H. Brown, U. S. 

 Eclipse Exped. to Africa; 3 males (14872), 2 males, 4 females 

 (14873). 



Chinchoxo; Falkenstein, collector; received from Berlin Mus. ; 1 

 male (19551). 



St. Paul de Loanda; Dec. 11, 1889; W. H. Brown, U. S. Eclipse 

 Exped. to Africa; 7 males, 4 females (14874), 1 male (14875). 



iAnn. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 8, 1881, p. 262. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1880, p. 153. 



