most iiuirked exce[)ti()iis being Garijpiis irruyatus Sim. from Siam and Clielifer Miir- 

 rayi Poc. from the Nicobars. In my studies on the Indian Gayrellinae I arrived at 

 a similar result (cf. „New and old Phalangiidae from the Indian Region" in Linn. 

 Soc. .lourn. Vol. XXVIII, 1903, pp. 468—469). 



A long lime will probably elapse, before our knowledge in (he details al)out 

 the distribution of these animals will l)e sufficient for drawing conclusions of greater 

 interest — Eurojie perhaps excepted — certainly the best way should be to study 

 each sul)family or well defined specific group separately and all their known 

 species without faunistic restrictions. 



II. List of species of Chelonethi from Asia. 



The figure in the bracket behind the specific names of all not Indian species 

 refers to the paper, in which the species in question is mentioned as an Asiatic one. 



The following 15 species have been mentioned from Caucasus. 



Chelifer brevimanus Kolen. (2) ; Ch. Caucasicus Dad. (29) ; Ch. disjiinctus L. K. (29) ; 

 Ch. Frivalclszkiji Dad. (29); Ch. Hispamis Dad. (29); Ch. Hormrlhii Dad. (29); Ch. 

 Kussariensis Dad. (29); Ch. meridiaiuis L. K. (12|; Ch. phaleratiis Dad. (29). (^htlwnhis 

 microphthalmiis Sim. (29). Obisiuin carcinoides Herrn. (29); Ob. tuc/i/nis Sim. (29); 

 Ob. macrodactijhim Dad. (29); Ob. manicalutn L. K. (24); Ob. inusconim L. K. (29). 



The following 10 species have been mentioned from Syria and Arabia. 



Chelifer Letourneuxii Sim. (28); Ch. persiilcatiis Sim. (28). Ganjpiniis diinidiatus 

 L. K. (8). Olpium Arabicum Sim. (28); Olp. hiiimpressiiin Sim. (28); Dip. pallipes 

 Luc. (11); Olp. riibidnm (27). Obisium mascorum C. K. (11); Ob. Simoni L. K. (8); 

 Ob. imlidum L. K. (23). 



Only four species have been mentioned from China and Japan. 



Chelifer bicarinatus Sim. (25); Ch. bondens Karsch (26); Ch. Pekinensis Bal. (12). 

 Microcreagris Gigas Bal. (12). 



The species from New-Guinea are in the following regarded as belonging to 

 the Indian Fauna. Of the 58 species, which may be regarded as Indian, four were 

 collected in shi|)s with rice arrived from India at Copenhagen viz. Chelifer naviga- 

 tor n. sp., Ch. depressus C. K.(?), Ch. subrnber Sim.(?) and Ch. nodosus Schranck ('.'), 

 and three other species in addition to these are recorded from other countries viz. 

 Ch. bifissus Sim., Ch. nodnlimanusTom. and Ch. scorpioides Herm. (cf. below). Only 

 four species have been collected in distant localities viz. Chelifer Murragi Poc. in 

 the Nicobars and Christmas Island, Ch. plebejus n. sp. in the Nicobars, in Malakka 

 and Burma, Garypus irrugatus Sim. in Sumatra and Siam, and Pseudochiridium 

 clavigernm Thor, in Burma and Christmas Island. About Chelifer Jananus Thor, 

 and Ch. politus Sim. cf. below remarks in the descriptions of Ch. Jananus Thor, 

 and Ch. navigator n. sp. 



From New Guinea: Chelifer œquatorialis Dad.; Ch. megasoma Dad.; Ch. scor- 

 pioides Herrn. Chthonius Wlassicsi Dad. Ideobisinm bipectinatnm Dad. 



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