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(cl'. |). 123). This i^roiip, which is prubal)ly of less value Ihan Ihu lliree preceding 

 ones, can naUually be divided into two viz. one with the inlegunienl granular and 

 clavate hairs, and without any tarsal "taclile" hairs, and the other with skin 

 smooth, with ])ointed hairs and with tarsal "tactile" hairs. To the former of these 

 secondary groups belong Ch. cimicoides F., Ch. Hawaiiensis Sim.(?), Ch. Pacificus 

 Wilh(?) and Cli. Australiensis With(?), and to the latter Ch. nodosiis Schranck and 

 Ch. Galatheae n. sp. (?); the position of those species which are marked by an 

 interrogation is doubtful, because I have only had occasion to examine their 

 genital area from below without dissection. Ch. cocophihis Sim. seems also to 

 belong to this group, though difVering in some respects (cf. below). 



By using the characters proposed, especially those taken from the genital area 

 of the male, there seems to be a probability for attaining a natural classification 

 of Chelifer Geof. ; the main divisions will probably be as proposed, but other groups 

 will possibly be established and some of those proposed perha[)s dissolved into 

 sevei'al. If future students succeed in dividing the great number of vastly moditied 

 species, belonging to the old genus Chelifer Geof., into several genera, they will be 

 obliged to encompass these in one new subfamily and establish another for 

 Psciidochiridiiim n. gen. 



VII. Synoptic Key of Indian Species. 



1. Real eyes. Transverse stripes. "Tactile" hair of tarsus 



IV median. 

 2. Claws with teeth. 



3. Hand of the palps distinctly broader than the tibia. 



4. Trochanter of the palps distinctly longer than broad. 



5. Abdominal lergiles j)rovided with longitudinal lateral 



keels. Fingers of the palps scarcely shorter than hand 

 and gape distinctly when closed. Coxae of the fourth 

 pair have posterior margin distinctly concave and are 

 provided with a coxal sac; two claws of first pair of 



legs very difierent c? 



(i. Palps only slightly longer than body. The posterior claw 

 of first pair of legs without backwards directed tooth; 

 the posterior terminal lateral hair of fourth tarsus bifur- 

 cate. Femur of the palps is 32 longer than broad, tibia 

 2\S, and hand 15 broader than tibia .... (1) Mortensenii n. sp. c^ 

 Ü. Palps much longer than body. 



7. The posterior claw of first pair of legs without back- 

 wards directed tooth; posterior terminal lateral hair of 

 tarsus IV with two terminal teeth. Femur of the palps 

 37 longer than broad, tibia 3 times, and hand l? broader 

 than tibia (2) depressus C. K. c? 



