64 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vou. XII, 
according to Pocock (1894, pp. 122-3), the former does not belong. 
The type is in the British Museum and must be redescribed before 
the species can be recognized. Pocock believes it to have come 
from Borneo. 
Localities mentioned below are marked with an asterisk (*) 
when represented in the Indian Museum collection. References to 
descriptions are only given in the case of species not mentioned by 
Kraepelin in ‘‘ Das Tverreich,” where descriptions of and references 
to other species will be found. 
Genus Labochirus, Pocock. 
This genus is found in western Africa, western India, Ceylon, 
Burma and the north of the Malay Peninsula; perhaps also 
Borneo. 
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Fic. 1.—Abnormalities in the gnathobase and trochanter of the arm of 
Labochirus proboscideus, X 4. 
Labochirus africanus (Hentschel). 
Western Africa: Senegal. 
? Northern Africa: Algeria. 
This species was described by Hentschel from female speci- 
mens only in 1899. It was unknown to Kraepelin when the family 
was revised in ‘‘ Das Tierreich.’’ 
Labochirus proboscideus (Butler). 
(Pl. i, figs. 1-4.) 
Ceylon: Central Province—*Kandy, 1500-2000 ft.; *Pera- 
deniya, 1600-1800 ft.; Haragama, ca. 1200-1400 
ft.; *Galagedara,ca. 800-2000 ft.; *Nalanda, ca 
goo-1000 ft.; Matale; *? Sigiri. 
? Western Province—Kalutara. 
