MELOPffil'S. — OBKITHOOTOKUS. 205 



205. Cyriopagopus paganus, Simon, J. A. S. B. hi, p. Ill, 1S87. 



Colour : integument reddish brown, clothed with greyish-brown 

 pubescence and reddish bristles ; ends of leg-segments narrowly- 

 white ; abdomen obscurely banded. Carapace as long as patella 

 and tibia of 1st leg, a little shorter than those of 4th and than 

 protarsus and tarsus of this limb. 



Measurements in mm. — Total length 35, length of carapace 14*5, 

 width 12, length of 1st leg 39 (patella + tibia 14-5\ 2nd 35, 

 3rd 32, 4th 43 (patella + tibia 15, protarsus 10). 



Loc. Tenasserim : Tavoy (Moti Bam), 



Genus MEL0P(EUS, Pocock. 

 Melopoeus, Pocock, A. M. N. H. (6) xv, p. 179, 1895. 



Carapace with the cephalic region elevated, the area between 

 the fovea and the ocular tubercle distinctly convex both longi- 

 tudinally and transversely ; fovea narrow and crescentically pro- 

 curved ; ocular tubercle high, subcircular, some distance behind 

 the edge of the clypeus. Legs long and slender, the 4th thinner 

 than the 1st, its tibia about four times as long as wide. Anterior 

 tibia of male with a single blunt spur as in Cyriopagopus. 



Type, M. albostriatus (Simon). 



Distribution. Siara and Tenasserim. 



206. Melopoeus minax, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxxvii, p. 182, 1897. 



2 . Colour : integument blackish, clothed with ruddy brown 

 hairs ; ends of leg-segments whitish ; abdomen obscurely banded 

 above. Carapace as long as patella and tibia and one-fourth of 

 the protarsus of the 1st and 4th legs, very slightly exceeding 

 protarsus and tarsus of 4th ; width equal to patella and tibia of 

 2nd, greater than those of 3rd. Legs scantily clothed with bristles, 

 patella and tibia of 4th leg a little shorter than of 1st. 



Measurements in mm. — Total length 44, length of carapace 24, 

 1st leg 59, 2nd 52, 3rd 47, 4th 61, patella + tibia of 4th leg 21, 

 of 1st 22-5. 



Loc. Tenasserim : Kawkareet {Feci). 



Genus 0RNITH0CT0NUS, Pocock. 



Ornithoctonus, Pocock, Join-. Linn. Soc. f Zool. xxiv, p. 317, 1892 ; 

 id. A. M. N, H. (6) xv, p. 179, 1895. 



Resembling Melopous in having the fore part of the carapact 

 elevated, the ocular tubercle small and situated at some distance 

 from the edge of the clypeus ; but differing in having the thoracic 

 fovea deep, wide, and scarcely procurved, and the legs stout and 

 'short, the 4th pair being as thick as the 1st, the width of the tibia 

 of the 4th being more than one-third of the length. Malt- 

 unknown. 



Type, 0. andersoni, Poc. 



Distribution. Burma. 



