1914-] H. Ellingsen : Indian Pseudoscorpions. 9 



it has, for instance, the lack of eyes in common, but the measure- 

 ments of the palps are different. 



Chelifer dcprcssus (C. L. Koch) Hansen. 



India. CalcuUa, i (^ jun., M. No. ^^^-. 



The specimen is very young, but the sex is certain on 

 account of the coxae of the IV pair of legs, with the coxal sac, 

 and of the keels of the sclerites which are very well developed 

 on the 5 first tergites ; the cephalothorax, too, has its postero- 

 lateral spine. The galea is very small with some fine teeth in 

 the distal third. The cephalothorax is slightly granulate, but 

 glossy. The palps are very slender ; the femur about four times 

 as long as wide, the stalk included; for this as well as for other 

 reasons the specimen cannot well belong to Ch. superbus, With, 

 with which it is however very closely related. The palpal fingers 

 gape very much, both being distinctly '^concave" (and not as in 

 Ch. superbus, one of them " obtuse-angled") and in the concavity 

 quite destitute of teeth; the straight concurrent part of the 

 extremity is not quite so long as shown in With's figure. It is, 

 however, with some hesitation that I have referred the specimen 

 from Calcutta to the above species, partly because it is so young, 

 partly because Ch. depressus has not yet been captured in India, 

 but only in Denmark in a cargo of rice from India. However, 

 there is reason to believe that the species is an Indian one. 



Chelifer Hansenii, Thorell. 



India. Satara Oistr : Hills near Medha, \'enna valley, en. 2200 ft., i (^ , 

 iv-igi2, collected by F. H. Gravely, M. No. ^ff-. 



Thorell, in 1889, described a Pseudoscorpion under the above 

 name, from Bhamo in Burma. He remarks that the single specimen 

 he had for examination seemed not to be adult. The sex is not 

 mentioned, but as he says that the galea is ''sat fortis," it may 

 perhaps have been a young female. 



I have identified the above cf from Medha with Thorell's 

 species, as his long and good description agrees well, taking into 

 consideration that his specimen was young and perhaps a 9 , 

 while the male from Medha is adult. 



I shall state a little more about the species (if my identifica- 

 tion be right) and about the differences from Thorell's description. 



The cephalothorax and palps are of a very dark brown colour, 

 the sclerites of the tergites light brown with a darker central 

 spot. 



The sternites 7-9 (the last sternite regarded as the eleventh) 

 have in the middle of the broad, light, longitudinal band, a round 

 area, limited on each side by a dark, irregularly crescentic band 

 (interrupted in front and behind, and thus not being a circular 

 band) ; the round area is provided with bristles, pointing obliquely 

 towards the median line. This quite corresponds with the much 



