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Leg IV: femur ()-63() (0-240), Irochanlin 0230; libia 0420 (0.100); tarsus I 0130 

 (0075); larsus II 015)0 (0065) mm. 



(^. Boily. — The male is exceedingly small and slender compared lo Ihe 

 female. The genital area is well distinguished from that of the female; compli- 

 cated system of dark chitinous bars, partly establishing a bow, are visible through 

 the integument. 



Antennae (PI. II, fig. 8d). — The galea is much shorter than the terminal 

 hair, which extends distinctly beyond it; terminal third is much thinner and well 

 limited from the rest (fig. 8 d). 



Colour. — Yellow with the exception of the yellowish brown palps with 

 darker hands; head is more greenish brown. 



Measurements. — Céphalothorax 0-5(50 (()'450); abdomen 1-820(0-540) mm. 



Palps: trochanter 0260 (0196); femur 0475 (0-190); tibia 0485 (0230); hand 

 0-500 (0-308) mm. 



Material. — Dr. Mortensen has collected five females and a single male, 

 apparently fullgrown in spite of small size, under stones in the Island of Koh Chang 

 in the month of January. 



Remarks. — This species is well distinguished from the two described species 

 of this genus: viz. G. dimidialiis L. K. and G. Patagoniciis Ell., from the former by 

 its clumsy palps, which have the posterior outline of the tibia distinctly convex, 

 and from the latter by its three-branched galea, by the fingers of the palps, which 

 are of equal length to the hand, and by the tarsal joints, of which the distal is 

 the longer. 



Family IV. Chcliferidoc Hagen (Hans.). 



1875. Cheliferinae pars Stecker (35.) p. 160. 



1879. Cheliferinae + Chiridiiim Menge. Simon (5.) p. 19. 



1879. Cheliferidae Hagen (36.) p. 400. 



1882. Cheliferinae ~| Chiridiiim Menge. Tömösväry (40.) p. 177. 



1884. Cheliferinae pars Hansen (9.) p. 531. 



1889. Cheliferinae + Chiridium Menge. Daday (11.) p. 167. 



1890. Cheliferidae pars Balzan (46.) p. 406. 



1891. Cheliferinae + Chiridiiim Menge. Balzan (12.) p. 504. 



1894. Cheliferidae Hansen (49.) p. 231. 



1895. Cheliferinae + Atemnus Can. Banks (50.) p. 2. 



Femora of the livo anterior pair of leys undivided or havimj but a basal Irochan- 

 lin. All tarsi one-jointed. Two eyes or none. All the hairs of the body neuer simple. 



This family is divided into two subfamilies, viz. the Cheliferinae Sim. and the 

 Chiridiinae Hans., the former characterized by the presence of a well defined 

 trocliantin on the legs and the latter subfamily characterized by their undivided 

 femora. The Chiridiinae Hans, are besides remarkable by their broad abdomen, 



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