170 



Leg I: femur 0423 (0180), Iroehantin 0-081; tibia 0-297 ((1117); tarsus 0279 

 (0-081) mm. 



Leg IV: femur 0-558 (0261), trochantin 0243; tibia 0-468 (0162); tarsus 0324 

 (0-108) mm. 



Material. — The Danish Galathea Expedition has collected a single s[)ecimen 

 ((?) of this species in the island of Nankovry, one of the Nicobars, and il has 

 been called C/i. Galatheae n. sp. in remembrance of the good work done by this 

 Expedition. 



Remarks. — This species, which is so well characterized by its extremely 

 short and clumsy palps, especially the excessively deep hands, by the numerous 

 sense-spots of the inner surface of the immovable finger and by the long galea 

 of the male, is without doubt related to Ch. nodosus Schranck; similarity is at 

 least present in the dentation of the fingers of the palps and the genital area 

 of the male. 



19. Chelifer nodosus Schranck. 



(PI. I, fig. 8 a). 



1803. F. Schranck. Faun. Bole. Ill, p. 246. 

 1879. E. Simon (5.) p. 33, pi. XVIII, fig. 14. 

 1884. H. J. Hansen (9.) p. 548. 



Eyes or ocular spots wanting; céphalothorax with a very broad and prominent 

 almost straight transverse stripe; all abdominal tergites except the fust and the 

 eleventh longitudinally divided with marginal rows of long and slender obtuse hairs; 

 they bear all except the eleventh, in which the hairs are placed without proper 

 order, a lateral hair on each side in front of the row, and except the first tergite a 

 median pair in front of the row ; the eleventh sternite as well as the tergite bear 

 two pair of "tactile" hairs each. The genital area (J") is like that of Ch. cimi- 

 coides F. The palps are partly granular; the trochanter is distinctly produced dor- 

 sally into a well developed posterior tubercle; the femur is twice longer than 

 broad and a little shorter than the tibia, which has lateral outlines distinctly con- 

 vex. The hand, which is 1-3 broader than the tibia, is 1-6 longer than broad and 

 only 12 longer than fingers; the chela is about 3 times as long as broad; the 

 fingers gape a trifle, when closed, and are always provided with accessory teeth; the 

 movable one always bears a single one only anteriorly near to the tip. The tarsus 

 of the fourth pair of legs bears in the middle two "tactile" hairs the one behind 

 the other; the tarsus of the first pair is as long as the tibia and five times longer 

 than deep; the femur of the fourth pair is 3-4 times longer than deep and 1-5 

 lower than the tarsus is long. 



This species is distributed all over Euro|)e; it has according to Hansen once 

 been caught in a ship with rice from Indo-China. As this specimen has not been 

 mounted separately, it was impossible to verify or negative this statement. 



