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margin more ahruplly curved oiilwnrds beyond stalk. The tibia, wliicli is much 

 longer Ihan the femur hut only a little broader, is almost 3 limes longer than 

 broad and oi a much more elongated shape than in the female; both lateral outlines 

 are much more convex. The hand, which is a little shorter than the femur and 

 scarcely more than M longer than the tibia, is much narrower than the trochantin 

 is long, almost twice as long as broad and has the lateral convexities much more 

 moderate; the whole chela is 33 longer than broad. 



Coxae. — The fourth pair is triangular, as the posterio-interior corner is 

 scarcely marked and the interior margin very short. 



Colour. — The palps are darker, reddish brown with lighter chelae, and 

 the céphalothorax and tergites are also of a darker hue than in the female. 



Measurements. — Specimen from Kar Nikobar. Céphalothorax 0-9.S0 (0-886) ; 

 abdomen 2240 (1400) mm. 



Palps: trochanter 0-504 (0308); femur 1036 (0380); tibia 1176 (0-400); hand 

 0-952 (0-460), depth 0448; finger OäSS mm. 



Material. — I have of this species examined a number of not very well 

 preserved specimens brought home from the Nicobars by the Danish Galathea 

 Expedition viz. 2 Ç and 3 c? from the Kar Nikobar, 4 Ç and 1 d* from Pulu Mulu 

 and 1 c^ from Nankovry: in addition to these Pocock's typical specimens (a male 

 and a female) in the British Museum have been examined, but not compared with 

 those from the Nicobars. 



Remarks. — I have referi'ed this species to Ch. Murray i Poe. on account of 

 the similarity in all structures of greater importance in spite of smaller differences. 

 The most important one is perhaps the small number of the sternal spines of the 

 male namely only about 40 on the tenth sternite, apparently none on the fourth 

 and scarcely more than 80 on the median ones; the number of these spines was 

 not always the same on each side; this poor development of the spines is perhaps 

 due the specimen being not quite fullgrown. The original description does not go 

 very deep into the structure and is not quite correct in the details;, the remarks 

 "a row of setiferous tubercles along the posterior margin" of the tergal plates, and 

 that the "bristles are simple" lead me originally to regard "C/i. Miirrayi Poc." as 

 a species well defined from that from the Nicobars; but both statements are really 

 not correct, for my examination of the former of these species showed, that the 

 hairs are of the same structure in both forms. 



12. Chelifer Sninafraniis Thor. 



1889. T. Thoreil (10.) pp. 599—601. 

 No eyes. Céphalothorax almost twice as long as broad with two transverse 

 almost straight "grooves", and provided with short, obtuse hairs; "subtilissime 

 coriaceus". Alxlomen long and almost obovate, with tergites (I and XI excepted) 

 longitudinally divided and with marginal rows of "pilorum tenuium el brevium . . ., 

 subclavalorum". The palps are long, slender and smooth; the trochanter is almost 



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