176 



Expedition brought home two very mutilalcd females (?) from the Island of Nan- 

 kovry, one of the Nicobars. 



24. Chelifer ThorelUi Balz. 



1891. Lamprochernes Thorelli L. Balzan (12.) pp. 519— 520, pi. 10, fig. 11. 

 Distinct ocular spots; céphalothorax as long as broad, with distinct, almost 

 straight transverse stripe, not granular, with long pointed, almost simple hair; 

 abdomen elongate with almost parallel sides. The galea fairly long and slender 

 with a number of tiny teeth terminally. The smooth palps are rather short and 

 clumsy; the trochanter is bigibbose; the femur is 2'4 longer than broad, as long 

 as but narrower than the tibia, which has lateral margins moderately convex ; the 

 hand, which is about 1-4 broader than the tibia, is 1-7 longer than the fingers. 

 Femur of palps 115 (0-480); tibia 115 (0-545); hand 125 (0-745); finger 0700. 

 Sumatra. This species is probably related to Chelifer Birmanicus Thor., but is 

 remarkable by its very short fingers. 



25. Chelifer Birmanicus Thor. 

 (PI. Ill, fig. 10a; pi. IV, figs. 4a-f). 



1889. T. Thorell (10.) pp. 594— 597, tav. V, fig. 6. 

 1905. A. TuUgren (22 b.) pp. 39— 40, figs. 1 a-f ). 



Two almost obsolete ocular spots; céphalothorax longer than broad with rather 

 distinct transverse stripe, curved backwards in the middle, without granules cmd with 

 long, almost simple hairs. Abdomen long and slender, with 6 hairs in front of mar- 

 ginal row on the median tergites; tip of abdomen with tactile hairs, and genital area 

 (<^) of "Birmanicus" type (cf. p. 124). The minutely granular palps much shorter (^) or 

 almost as long as (c?) the body; trochanter distinctly longer than broad, with posterior 

 margin abruptly conve.v and with dorsal surface produced into a conical tubercle; 

 femur about 2'3 longer than broad, as long as but narrower than the tibia, which has 

 lateral outlines distincly convex, and posterior basal elevation well developed. The 

 hand 1'4 C^) or 1-2 (^) broader than tibia, about i'l longer than broad and VB 

 (^) or 11 ($) longer than deep, and 14 longer than fmger. "Tactile" hair of the 

 fourth tarsus is placed at fca.se ; the tibia of the first pair a little longer than the 

 tarsus, which is 4'7 longer than deep. 



Ç. Céphalothorax. — Ocular spots almost obsolete. The cephalothoracic 

 shield is distinctly longer than broad and almost as broad in the middle as behind; 

 a fairly well marked median transverse stripe, which is strongly curved backwards 

 in the middle, is found. The integument has no granules, but only the first tho- 

 lacic tergite is polished, but not the head and second tergite, because muscular 

 spots are abundant everywhere there; it is only due to this difference in the struc- 

 ture of the skin between the head and the first tergite, that a transverse stripe is 

 visible. The hairs are fairly long and slender with a few terminal teeth; the second 

 tergite bears a transverse row of 8 hairs. 



