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Colon I-. Thi.' colour is uuicli lighter; liic palps arc light yellowish hrovvn 

 wilh darker fingers and maxillae. Body only a little lighter than in female. 



Measurements. — Cejihalolhorax OOOO (0840); ahdomen ItiOU (MOO) mm. 



Palps: trochanter 047(5 (0-252); femur 0900 (0240); tihia 0920 (0-290); hand 

 0-812 (0-500), depth (0-476); finger 0756 mm. 



Variation. — Two other specimens, probably young ones, dill'ered slightly in 

 the armature of the first thoracic tergites and in the proportions of the palps. 



Material. — Of this species I have examined Hansen's specimens (4 Ç and 

 3 c?); most of these rather imperfect specimens have been taken in Denmark with 

 the exception of a single specimen, which was collected by Mr. Hudde Lund in a 

 ship with rice, which arrived at Copenhagen from hidia. 



Remarks. — Mr. E. Ellingsen writes (18. pp. 205—206): "M. Hansen est le 

 seul, qui, après C. L. Koch, ait eut la dernière espèce sous les yeux; mais il ne 

 mentionne pas, sur (juoi il a fixé l'identité. La seule chose de la description de 

 Koch (jui i)uisse inditjuer que les phujues tergales seraient carinées, c'est que selon 

 lui l'abdomen a "die Schieldringe llach, fast durchziehend"." If the last remark 

 is to be regarded as a proof against Hansen's identification, it is not sound, because 

 it only bears out that Koch's specimens were females. But the identification can 

 nevertheless not be regarded as a secure one on account of the insufficiency of the 

 original description. As however the species, described by Hansen, agrees with 

 Koch's descri[)tion as far as it goes, and as the locality of the type specimen is 

 unknown, there is no reason whatever to establish a new species with a new name 

 and make Ch. depressus C. K. to a ''nomen nudum". 



3. Chelif'er superbus n. sp. 

 (PI. Ill, fig. 3 a). 



Disliiui ctjes present. Tioo transverse stripes, almost stniiyht in the middte and 

 of almost e<pial breadth (Ç) or posterior the broader (t^): céphalothorax with obtuse 

 hairs and almost smooth. Abdomen with well developed tergal keels {^), with no 

 hairs but lateral in front of the row and with "tactile" hairs on two last segments. 

 Genital area of male of "Lophochcrnes" type. Palps slightly longer (^) or much 

 longer than body (<^). and almost smooth: trochanter distinctly longer than broad and 

 its dorsal surf<we slightly produced posteriorly : femur about So longer than broad, 

 almost as long as, but distinctly narrower than the tibia, which has lateral outlines 

 moderately conve.v and the basal posterior elevation very indistinct; hand is V6(^) or 

 t'ô (^) broader than tibia, and 1"2 (^) longer or of almost equal length (^) to fingers. 

 The coxa IV (^) with distinctly concave posterior margin, including a coxal sac, which 

 has a well deßned basal portion, and provided with an exterior spine. Median tarsal 

 "tactile" hair of fourth pair. The tarsus I is a little (^) or much shorter than tibia (<3), 

 and is ,3-5 ('^) or 'i times longer than deep. Claws with big anterior teeth; anterior 

 claw of first pair of legs (^) with small ventral tooth ; posterior slightly curved, swollen 

 towards the middle with small backwards directed tooth. 



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