ischxurip/f:. 



Family ISCHNURIME. 



A. 



B. 



C. 



Fig. 21. — A. Chiromachetes fcrgusoni, 

 tarsus of 4th leg, external view. 



B. Normurus australasite, ditto. 



C. lomachus keviceps, ditto. 



Leys furnished with a single 

 pedal spur. Sternum broad and 

 pentagonal. Genital operculum di- 

 vided in male, undivided in 

 female. Both movable and im- 

 movable fingers of mandible un- 

 toothed along the lower edge. IS T o 

 spine beneath aculeus on vesicle 

 of tail. Extremity of torsi squarely 

 truncate, forming almost a right 

 angle with the base of the claw- 

 lobe, and not produced into a 

 rounded lobe overlapping the claws 

 at the side. Carapace, abdomen, 

 and chela? flat and depressed ; hand 

 with strong and complete finger- 

 keel ; edges of finger of chela 

 granularly dentate, not produced 

 into sharp triangular teeth. Tad 

 thin, strongly compressed. 



Distribution. Ethiopian Region ; 

 Madagascar ; Oriental .Region from 

 India to Papua; northern part of 

 Neotropical Region. 



Synopsis of Indian Genera.. 



Hemiscobpius, p. 77 



A single median keel on the lower side of 

 all the caudal segments, that on the 1st 

 sometimes obsolete ; tarsi armed beneath 

 and di^tally with many (-5 pairs of) 



spines 



No median keel on the underside of caudal 



segments 1-4 ; tarsi furnished below with 



paired setas or at most a few spines, *2 



distal and 1 proximal. 



a\ Median eyes well in front of the middle 



of the carapace ; tarsi spined beneath, 



protarsi spined at the distal end Chiromachetes, p. 77. 



b l . Median eyes only just in front of the 



middle of the carapace; protarsi not 



distally spined ; tarsi at most with 



ono posterior distal spine. 



>r. Tarsi with median row of spicule.- ; 



posterior lateral eye above edge of 



carapace Iomaciius, p. 81. 



b 2 . Tarsi without median row of spicules ; 

 all three lateral eyes on edge of cara- 

 pace " HoKMUnus, p. 78. 



