i H.KRILIU.E. 



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Family CH.ERILID.E. 



Pedal spurs two, as in the Buthidce; but the anterior never 

 •double. Sternum of eephalothorax pentagonal, parallel-sided, with 

 a posterior rounded median pit : as long as wide or longer than 

 wide. Pectines very short, scarcely segmented. Maxillary pro- 

 cesses of 1st pair of legs (fig. 15, «)expanded at the anterior extremity, 

 with broadly truncate anterior border. Stigmata (fig. 15, c) circular. 

 Carapace narrowed in front, its anterior border transversely truncate; 



a 



Fig. 15. — Lower side of eephalothorax and 

 of anterior abdominal somites of Charilus, 

 showing(a) the expanded maxillary process 

 of the 1st leg; (oj the unsegmented shaft 

 of the pecten, and (c) the circular stigma. 



Fig. 16. 



Carapace of IhcerUus. 



two lateral eyes on each side, aud beneath them an amber-coloured 

 spot. Movable and immovable fingers of mandible armed below 

 with a series of small teeth. Fingers of chelce never lobate, 

 furnished with many overlapping rows of small teeth, the terminal 

 tooth of each series on the outer side enlarged. Tarsi (fig. 5 B, p. 8) 

 furnished beneath with two series of stout bristles and a median 

 series of very fine spicules. Males usually with longer narrower 

 chelae than females, and slightly or considerably longer tail; vesicle 

 <of tail sometimes much modified in male. 



Genus CH-ffiRILUS, Simon. 

 Chaerilus, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (5), vii. p. 238, 1877 j 



Karsch, .1/7'. Munch. Ent. J'cr. iii, p. 1<>I. l>7it; J'ococJ,-, in 

 Weber's Heist Niederl.O.-Ind.iii t -p.91, 1890; Eraepelin, Jb. Hamb. 

 Wise. And. xi, p. 141. L894; id. Tierr., Scorp, etc. p. 167, 1899. 



Chelomachus, Thorell,Ann. Mus. Genova, x.wii. p. •">>■:. L889. 



Qromachus, Pocock, A. M. .V. //. (6) v. p. 250, L890. 



