IQI4.] E. Ellingsen : Indian Pseudoscorpions. 5 



As to the Ceylon specimen, it may be noted that the 

 outer side of the palpal trochanter has the protuberance not so 

 well developed as is the case in European specimens and in the 

 two Indian specimens just mentioned, but it belongs to the same 

 species, although it is not reported to be taken in a house. 



Chelifer himalayensis, sp. nov. 



CT*. No eyes, nor ocular spots. 



Colour. — The whole animal of a deep reddish brown colour. 



Cephalothorax a little shorter than wide behind, strongly nar- 

 rowing forwards from the posterior corner, with convex lateral 

 margins ; the slightly convex front margin is only j of the length 

 of the posterior margin. Two very strong and deep transverse 

 grooves, especially deep in the central part ; the anterior groove 

 about in the middle and straight, the posterior one at about the 

 same distance from the anterior groove and the back margin, in 

 the central part angularly curved backwards. The surface some- 

 what glossy, slightly but distinctly and regularly granulate. 

 The hairs, most of them crowded along the front and the lateral 

 margins, are truncate. 



Abdomen very robust and broad, somewhat broader than 

 long, but very much contracted. The tergites are certainly 

 divided by a longitudinal line, but this line is very indistinct, 

 on account of the contracted abdomen ; for the same reason the 

 anterior sclerites are also placed somewhat angularh'^ to each 

 other (which is often the case in species belonging to the subgenus 

 Chernes) ; the surface is glossy and distinctly shagreened ; on each 

 sclerite there is in the middle a darker spot; the hairs, situated 

 along the posterior and the lateral margins, are partly truncate 

 and partly (on the posterior somites) nearly pointed; on the last 

 somite there are some longer tactile hairs. The sternites are 

 still more indistinctly divided longitudinally, glossy and minutely 

 shagreened, with numerous, long and pointed hairs along the 

 posterior margins. 



Palps somewhat longer than the body', very robust. Coxa 

 glossy and slightly granulate ; the other palpal joints glossy and 

 distinctly granulate, including the fingers. The clothing of hairs 

 very dense, the hairs rather long, pointed, but distinctly dentate; 

 the hairs of the fingers nearly simple. Trochanter subglobose, 

 in front nearly semicircular, behind with a rounded protuberance, 

 above with a very strong and rounded one. Femur with a distinct 

 and strong stalk, very robust (about twice as long as wide), in 

 front and especially behind strongly widened from the stalk, the 

 front margin slightly convex in the basal half and slightly concave 

 in the distal half, the posterior side slightly convex; femur in all 

 of rather equal width throughout and truncate at the tip (the 

 femur as well as the tibia resembles very much With's figure of 



But see note above regarding the contraction of the abdomen. 



