﻿March i895-] BaNKS. NoTES ON PSKUDOSCORPIONI I) A . 13 



Tribe Chthonini. 



Chthonius Koch. 



The six species may be separated as follow : 



j Cave species, two or no eyes 2 



( Not cave species, four eyes 3 



^ j Hind legs about twice as long as the abdomen packardi. 



( Hind legs not much longer than abdomen COCCUS. 



1 Cephalothorax and mandibles with small spines, each tipped with a 



3 -: hair spinosus* 



' Without any spines , 4 



j Eyes close together, almost touching moestUS. 



( Eyes distinctly separated 5 



' Hind eye about twice its diameter from front eye, cephalothorax 



much wider in front than behind pennsylvanicus. 



-' . Mind eye not twice its diameter from front eye, cephalothorax but 



( little wider in front than behind longipalpis. 



Chthonius packardi Hag. — Zool. Anzeiger, July, 1879. 



Indian Cave, Barren Co., Ky., (Hubbard); Mammoth Cave, 

 Ky.; Wyandotte Cave, Ind. 



Chthonius coecus Pack. — Am. Nat., Febr. 1884. 

 Unknown to me. Weyer's Cave, Va. 



Chthonius pennsylvanicus Hag. — Rec. Am. Ent. , 1868. 



Pa.; Poughkeepsie, N.Y., (G. Van Ingen); one specimen. Lake 

 Poinsett, Fla., (Hubbard). 



Chthonius longipalpus Bks — Can. Ent., Aug. 1891. 



Ithaca, N.Y.; Sea Cliff, N. Y. ; Washington, D. C; Eredricks- 

 burgh, Va., (Richardson). 



Chthonius moestus Bks. — Can, Ent., Aug. 1891. 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



Chthonius spinosus i>/',v.— Can. Ent., March 1893. 

 Citrus Co., Fla., (C. M. Weed). 



Lechytia Balzan. 



Proposed by Prof. Balzan for his Ronciis chthoiniformis with 

 which my Ronciis pacificus appears to be congeneric. The palpi 

 are shorter than in CJithoniiis. 



Lechytia pacifica Bks. 



RoiicHs pacificus V,\y,V.'~.. Can. Entom., March, 1S93. 



Olympia, Washington, (Trevor Kincaid). 



