1914-] ^- EiyiyiNGSEN : Indian F^seitdoscorpions. 13 



No. ^yy- ; Ratnagiri District: Karajgaon ( lu miles N. of Dabhol), i specimen, 

 v-iyi2 (S. P. AgharUar coll.); Harnai, i specimen, 8-v- 1912 (S. P. Agharkar 

 coU.). Dehra Dun, i jun., M. No. ~x\-- — N. Bengal ; Siripur, Saran, i specimen, 

 under bark of Siris tree, M. No. ^f^. 



All the specimens are distinguished by having their palps 

 proportionally more robust than is the case in the preceding 

 species: the palpal femur is in all about 3 times as long as 

 wide, and all the characters agree well with Tullgren's description 

 and figures. 



Garypus insularis, Tullgren. 



India. Madras Presidcncv : X'izagapatam. i (^ . _'i-i\'-icji(i, collected by 

 S. W. Kemp. M. No. ' fy^ 



I have no doubt that the above specimen belongs to this 

 species, described by Tullgren from the Seychelles, and it is 

 not very remarkable that this species has also been taken in 

 India, although in the eastern part of the Deccan. The Indian 

 specimen is a male, while Tullgren's type was a female. The 

 galea of the male is, as is usual in Garypus, of somewhat 

 smaller size than that of the female, but like this, with some 

 minute teeth at the tips, at least this is the case in one of the 

 galeas. The fingers are strongly curved and nearly ij times 

 as long as the hand, which also may be concluded from Tullgren's 

 figure to have been the case in the type, though Tullgren says 

 nothing about it in his description. The length of the Indian 

 specimen is about 4 mm., while the type was 3*3 mm. The 

 species is distinguished by its long and slender palps and, as men- 

 tioned, by its proportionally long fingers. 



Feaella affinis, Hirst. 



India. Chota Nagpur Div., Manbhum District, Purulia, i$, io-ii-i9i2, 

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



There is certainly no doubt that the above specimen belongs 

 to the species described by Hirst under the name Feaella 

 affinis, from the Seychelles. This is, in the collection under 

 consideration, the second proof of the zoogeographical connection 

 between the Seychelles and the Indian Continent, the first being 

 the preceding species, Garypus insularis The capture of a species 

 of the genus Feaella in the Indian Continent is of the greatest 

 interest, though the Seychelles are geographically a connecting 

 link between India and Africa, which must be considered as the 

 cradle of the genus Feaella. 



S Hirst, in describing his species, points out the great resem- 

 blance with F. niucronata, Tullgren. This resemblance is still 

 greater than Hirst supposes, as one of the distinguishing charac- 

 ters, in my opinion, must drop. He points out, that of the four 

 prominences of the front margin of cephalothorax, the two lateral 

 ones are broader than the two central ones in his species, the 

 contrary being the case in that described by Tullgren. But 

 F. niucronata in reality, may show a similar development, as 



