lOM.H'iirs. 



81 



A. 



B. 



Fig. '23. — A. Iomachus 



l<; !■<<■• p.<, 4tli torpid plate 

 of abdomen. B. Iomachus 

 nitidus, ditto. 



Genus IOMACHUS. Pocock. 



Iomachus, Pocock, A. M. N. H. (ti) 

 xii, p. 320, 1693; id. <>}>. >it. (6) xvii, 

 p. Ml 7, 18!)(i; Kraepelin, Jh. Hamb. 

 ioi8g. A list. \i, p. 139, L894; id. Tim-., 

 Scorp. etc. p. L55, 1899. 



Nearly allied to Hormurus, but with the 

 posterior lateral eye above the margin ol 

 the carapace, the tarsi furnished beneath 

 with a median row of spicules and with 

 a few long slender bristles at the sides ; 

 and the genital operculum of 1 lie female 

 •pointed posteriorly and without trace of 

 a median suture. 



Type, /. Icevieeps (Pocock). 



Distribution. Southern India; British 

 and German East Africa. 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 



a. Abdominal terga not visibly punctured, marked 



with a pair of short pits scarcely surpassing 



the middle of the terga 1. nitidus, p. s -">. 



Ii. Abdominal terga visibly punctured, especially 



laterally, marked with a pair of strong sigmoid 



grooves which extend almost to the posterior 



margin. 



a 1 . Two setal pores on base of immovable linger 



above; tarsi with two pairs of bristles 



below I. Icevieeps, p. 81 . 



IA . Three setal pores on base of immovable 

 finger above; a spine on posterior distal 

 angle of tarsus below /. punctulatus, p. 83. 



<>7. Iomachus laeviceps, Pocock, A. M. N. II. (6) v, p. 242, t. xii, figs. 

 1-1 a, 1890; id. Jour. Bom. A'. 11. Soc. vii, p. 303, L893 i Hormurus) ; 

 Pocock, A. M. X. II. (i;i xii, p. 320, i. siv, f. 5, L893; Kraep. Jb. 

 Rami,, wiss. And. xi, p. 139 (1894) ; Pocock, Jour. Bom. A'. //. Soc. 

 xi,p. L16, 1897 ; Kraep. Tierr., Scorp. etc, p, 156, 1899 (Iomachus). 



Colour', body and tail yellowish or reddish to almost blackish 

 brown above; chelae redder : legs reddish or yellowish brown, alwaj s 

 paler than the body ; vesicle dear yellowish red. Carapad and 

 t< njii closely and finely punctured throughout, sometimes vers 

 finely granular laterally ; carapace a little longer than 1-1 and 2nd 

 caudal segments; about as long as 4th and 5th in y. shorter 

 in J • Sterna very faintly and closely punctured. Tail barely 



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