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show in the following. I feel quite sure that the species belongs to 

 the subrubo- group, more especially as the males, examined by me, 

 have bristled areas on 5 or 6 stermtes, one small area on each side 

 near the median line : these areas are quite small (contrary to what 

 is the case in most other species of the nubntbcr group) and with 

 proportionally few bristles. 



Together with these males were some females which in all 

 essentials resemble the males, except in the femur bcnii/ non/uil/// 

 shaped, ivitli no basal protuberance on tin-, front side <>t femur ; tibia 

 and hand are (as usual in ? ) somewhat more robust, and the lingers 

 proportionally somewhat shorter ; femur and tibia somewhat more 

 strongly granulate ; femur is in front proximally slightly convex, 

 distally slightly concave. 



NOTE. 2. The females mentioned above very much resemble the 

 female which Tullgren has described under the name of CJielifcr 

 lamellatus. Tullgren, it is true, says of this species that it has only 

 " deutliche Augenflecke," thus no real eyes, but eye-spots and real 

 eyes are often easily confounded. What Tullgren means by 

 ' Lamellen ' : in this species I have not quite been able to realise. 

 If this suggestion of mine is right, Ch. tiinmlifcrits may be $ and 

 Ch. lamellatus 5 of the same species. But I dare not at present 

 unite the two. 



20. CHELIFER WALLISKEWI nov. sp. 



$ . Two eyes of moderate size, one on each side. 



Colour. Body and palps dark reddish brown, the keels of 

 abdomen blackish red, the under side, legs, and mandibles palish 

 brown. 



Cephalothorax distinctly longer than wide behind, gradually narrow- 

 ing forwards, rounded in front, the front margin slightly convex. Two 

 very prominent transverse grooves ; the posterior one, especially, is 

 very broad and deep ; the anterior groove about in the middle, 

 straight, somewhat widened laterally; the posterior one considerably 

 nearer to the hind margin than to the first, distinctly curved for- 

 wards and, like the first, widened laterally. The hind corner of 

 cephalothorax produced into a small, brown, spine-like process, 

 sometimes rather indistinct. The surface somewhat glossy, densely 

 granulate, and provide;! additionally with scattered bigger granules ; 

 these are laterally bigger and pointed. The very few hairs (which 

 are left?) truncate and slightly dentate. 



Abdomen. The three anterior tergites and the last one entire, the 

 other tergites divided longitudinally by a fine stripe ; yet in one 



