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second tergite of the thorax is long. The first thoracic lergite has no posterior 

 spine, but the spines or Iteels of tlie following tergites bear similarity to those 

 described, but are much less developed. The galea extends in a slight degree 

 beyond the tip of the curved terminal hair, and is provided with rather long 

 branches. The palps are of a much more slender appearance, and the outlines ot 

 the joints, especially the anterior and the posterior of the hand, are much more 

 moderately curved: the femur is 36 times longer than broad, the tibia is 29 and 

 the hand even twice; the last mentioned joint is only 1'4 times broader than the 

 tibia and 1-25 longer than the fingers, which when closed gape only slightly in 

 similarity to those of the female. The coxal sac is not quite like (cf. p. 48) and 

 the coxal exterior spine is less prominent; the terminal lateral hairs of the tarsi are 

 slightly different, especially the posterior of the fourth pair, which has no ventral 

 tooth; the tarsus of the first pair of legs seems only to be 38 times longer than 

 deep; the posterior claw of the first pair of legs without any backwards directed 

 tooth. The colour is a little lighter. 



Material. — Professor Sydney J. Hickson kindly sent me four specimens 

 (2 Ç and 2 c?), which "were found attached to the membranous wings of one spe- 

 cimen of the Longicorn beetle Batocera celebiana" from Celebes. The two females 

 were apparently sullering from a disease, for they carried both the previously 

 mentioned black spots in front of the vulva, and the smaller specimen had also 

 the left leg of the second pair of a rusty brown colour, because they were filled 

 with a brown substance. On the body of all the specimens minute cylindric 

 bodies, similar to spores of fungi, but especiallj' abundant on the last segments of 

 the bigger male; the tergites were provided with groups, containing about 20, 

 while the sternites, f. inst. the eighth, had them arranged in transverse rows, con- 

 taining a number of about 100. 



Remarks. — I have included the male and the female in the same species 

 in spite of the rather unusual differences in the proportions of the palps, because 

 they are similar in most other respects and were found together; the differences 

 between the two females are so insignificant, that they must necessarily go together. 

 The differences between the males are much more striking, and it is only with 

 some hesitation that they are included in the same species; but as the long galea 

 and the slightly gaping fingers of the palps make it probable, that il is not quite 

 fullgrown, it was nol deemed right to establish a new species, taking in considera- 

 tion, how small our knowledge is in the variations due to age. 



4. Chelifer hisulcus Thor. 



1889. T. Thoreil (10.) pp. 603—606; tav. V, fig. 9 a-b. 



Two eyes removed from front margin a distance equal to their diameter; 



céphalothorax dislinclly longer than broad behind with two broad almost straight 



transverse grooves; the integument is polished without distinct granules and with 



short obtuse hairs. The abdomen is ob-ovale wilh all tergites except the first and 



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