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DIAGNOSES OF SOME NEW INDIAN ARACHNTDA. 



By R. I. PococK (ZooL. Dept., British Museum). 

 The following paper contains brief diagnoses of some new Indian 

 Arachnida, kindly obtained for me by various members of the Natural 

 History Society of Bombay. I gladly avail myself of the opportunity 



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middle of the carapace, the lateral eyes marginal. 



Chiromachetes fergusoni^ sp. n. 

 Colour. — A tolerably uniform greenish-black above, with the tarsi and 

 vesicle ferruginous ; ventral surface yellowish-red. 



Carapace and tergites smooth, closely punctured ; the former deeply 

 excised in the middle of its frontal border. Tail slender, punctulate, 

 not granular, and not keeled. Chelae densely punctulate and granular 

 above, long ; hand-back nearly twice as long as the width of the hand, 

 longer than the moveable digit, which is strongly lobate and 

 longer than the carapace. Legs punctured ; femora and tibise 

 finely granular ; tarsi with 2 posterior and 1 anterior spine 

 beneath. 



Total length 100 mm., length of carapace 14. 

 Locality^' — Trivandrum in Travancore {H, Ferguson)^ 



