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club shaped, i.e. gradually increasing in width from base to tip, 

 the hind margin nearly straight only a little convex near the tip, 

 the inner side sUghtly and evenly convex throughout. Hand 

 broader than tibia {ca. 1-4 times), with a distinct stalk, and 

 regularly rounded base, long and narrow (2^ times as long as 

 wide), rather parallel-sided, the inner side nearly straight, the 

 outer side slightly convex, rather abruptly passing into the 

 fingers Fingers robust, slightly curved, much shorter than the 

 hand (3 : 5). 



Mandibles: Galea minute, with some very small teeth at 

 the tip. 



Legs granulate on the outer side, on the inner side as well as 

 on trochanter and coxa smooth and glossy. The hairs partly 

 truncate, partly pointed. Claws simple. 



The species belongs to the suhruher- grow^ 



5 . The female resembles the male in all essential characters, 

 except the palps which are somewhat more robust, the femur 

 being 3^ times as long as wide, the tibia 2^ times and the hand 

 if times as long as broad, but the length of the fingers propor- 

 tionally to that of the hand is about the same. The shape of the 

 palpal joints is also somewhat different: the femur is distinctly 

 curved (concave) on the inner side and somewhat more convex 

 behind (than in the &), the tibia is nearly regularly convex on 

 both sides (and therefore not so distinctly club-shaped), which is 

 also the case as regards the hand. The galea is considerably more 

 robust and with larger teeth at the tip. 



cf . Length 2'65 mm. 



Measurements. — Cephalothorax : long. 072; lat. 0-64. Tro- 

 chanter: long. o"36; lat. o"20. Femur: long, 0*79; lat. 0*2 1. Tibia: 

 long. 083; lat. o'20. Hand: long. 072; lat. 0'28. Fingers: 

 long. 0"43 mm. 



2 . Length 2*93 mm. 



Measurements. — Cephalothorax: long. 0*64; lat. 0*50. Tro- 

 chanter: long. 0*28; lat. 0*17. Femur; long. 0'6o; lat. o*i8. 

 Tibia: long. 0-54; lat. 0-21. Hand: long. 0-57; lat. 0-33. Fingers: 

 long. 0-36 mm. 



Habitat. — Cevlon: Peradeniya, 10 o*, [$, June, 1910, M. 

 No. HP. 



On examination of these specimens T thought at first 

 that I had before me Ch. sumatraniis, Thorell, but certain 

 essential differences hindered their union, in spite of the resem- 

 blance, especially in the shape of the palps. Thorell says about 

 his species, that the cephalothorax is " non granulosus," only 

 " subtillisime coriaceus " ; the new species has the cephalothorax 

 distinctly granulate. Thorell's species is further said to have 

 " sulcis duobus transversis," and the palps "laeves, nitidi," 

 which does not agree with the Ceylon specimens. 



The new species is related to certain species of the same 

 group from Africa, such as Ch. angulatus, Ellingsen, with which 



