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equal length lo Ihe tibia and only 11 broader, is almost as broad as the trochanter 

 is long, 16 longer than broad, 14 longer than deep and 1'5 longer than finger; 

 the chela is 26 longer than broad; the lateral outlines of the hand are beyond 

 the stalk rather abruptly and then moderately convex, while the ventral and 

 dorsal margins of the joint proper are almost perpendicular on the stalk, and then 

 slightly convex. 



Coxae. — The coxae of the fourth pair are slightly enlarged towards the 

 extremity and almost twice as long as broad ; they are square, as the i)osterio- 

 interior corner is almost obtuse-angled : the posterior margin is almost twice as 

 long as the interior, and the anterio-interior corner is only slightly pointed. 



Legs. — The hairs are like those of Ch. Birmanicus Thor. (cf. p. 178); the 

 tarsal „tactile" hair of the fourth pair of legs is placed at the base. The tibia of 

 the first pair of legs is not very much longer than the tarsus, which is 4-7 longer 

 than deep; the tarsus of the fourth pair of legs is 18 longer than the femur is 

 deep, and this is again 25 longer than deep. 



Colour. — The palps are dark reddish brown; the céphalothorax are darker 

 or lighter brown ; the abdominal tergites are blackish with yellowish spots for the 

 hairs; ventral side brownish. 



Measurements. — Céphalothorax 1-064 (0-924); abdomen 1876(0-900) mm. 



Palps: trochanter 0616 (0-380); femur 0972 (0-455); tibia 0-952 (0532); hand 

 0-970 (0-588), depth 0672; finger 0644 mm. 



Leg I: femur 0720 (0270), trochantin 0171; tibia 0576 (0171); tarsus 0-522 

 (0-115) mm. 



Leg IV: femur 0-873 (0-350), trochantin 0-350; tibia 0765 (0216); tarsus 0-630 

 (0-126) mm. 



Variation. — The céphalothorax is not broader in the middle than behind; 

 the abdomen has no longitudinal keel; the palps are shorter. 



Material. — The Danish Galathea Expedition brought home two males from 

 Pulu-Mulu, one of the Nicobars; both specimens were only poorly preserved, as 

 hairs and galeae were broken. 



28. Chelifer Javanus Thor. 



1883. T. Thoreil (6.) pp. 37— 40; tav. V, figs. 20— 22. 



1900. R. J. Pocock (17.) p. 156. 



1901. E.Simon (19.) p. 79. 



Distinct ocular spots; the smooth céphalothorax is a little longer than broad 

 without transverse stripes. Abdomen rather long and slender with the smooth 

 tergites indistinctly divided and with one row of hairs in front of marginal one, 

 with the exception of the first three, which have only a marginal row. The 

 antennae possess a simple pointed yalea, which in the male (c?) does not extend 

 beyond the terminal hair, but in the temale(?) projects distinctly beyond this hair. 

 The palps are "nitidissimi, omnium subtilissime impresso-punctati" ; the trochanter 



