DIAGNOSES OF SOME NEW INDIAN ARACHNID A. 745 



Genus Palamn^ds, Thor. 

 Palamnceiis wroughtoni, sp. a. 

 Allied to P. fuhipes, C. Koch, with the upper surface of the hand 

 of the pincer similarly crested externally, but with the inner border 

 of the hand much more strongly produced below the base of the immove- 

 able digit, and with the legs deep brown in colour instead of reddish- 

 yellow. 



Total length 100 mm., carapace 15. 



Locality.— ^dgSLwm ( W. A, Talbot), and Gadingal in Kolhapur ( (7oZ. 

 Wray). 



Order PEDIPALPI. 

 Genus Thelyphonus, Latr. 

 Thelyphonus murtcola, sp. n. 

 ^. Nearly allied to the Ceylonese and commoner Indian form 

 7\ sepiaris, Butler, but with the lower side of the abdomen polished, 

 finely sculptured instead of being coarsely corrugated and rugose. 

 Total length 32 mm., carapace 12*5. 

 Locality, — Trivandrum in Travancore (H. Ferguson), 

 Genus Labochirus, Poc. 

 Labochirus cerviuui, sp. n. 

 $ . Allied to the Ceylonese L. proboscideus, Butl., but with the 

 chelai tliinner and longer and scarcely a trace of the large blunt obtusely 

 angular prominence at the base of the hand on the inner side, but with 

 the anterior border of the tibial apophysis produced into an obtusely 

 angular prominence instead of being lightly sinuous as in L. proboscideus. 

 Total length of body 30 mm., carapace 11. 

 Locality, — Mangulore (T. Bailie). 



Labochirus cervinus, sp. n. 

 ^. Allied both to L. proboscideus and L. cervinus, but distinguish- 

 able by having the inner border of the hand behind the digit more 

 inflated than in L. cervinus and less so than in L, proboscideus. 

 Moreover, the posterior border of the tibial apophysis is straight ; the 

 anterior border is also straighter than in the other species, not sinuous 

 as in L, proboscideus and not inflated aa in L. cervinus ; the extremity 

 of the anterior border convexly rounded. 

 Total length 28 mm., carapace 11. 

 Locality.— KanskTa. {T. R. D. Bell), 



