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The genital sternum is very little modified in adults of either 
sex (see pl. iii, figs. 26 and 27). In the female especially it remains 
throughout life very like that of immature specimens of all forms 
of Thelyphonidae. 
Genus Thelyphonus, Latreille. 
This genus occurs throughout the Oriental Region, with the ex- 
ception of Burma where it is largely, if not entirely, replaced by 
Hypoctonus ; and it extends far eastwards among the Polynesian 
islands. 
Thelyphonus sepiaris, Butler. 
Incl. T. cristatus, Pocock. 
*«< Western Bengal’’ (probably Chota Nagpur, which is no 
longer included in Bengal). 
Orissa: *Balasore ; *Barkul on the Chilka Lake, o-1000 ft. 
South India: Ganjam District—*Gopkuda Island, Chilka 
Lake ; foot of Mohiri Hills, 3 or 4 miles 
from Berhampur!. 
Karnul District—* Nandyal. 
Chengalpat District—*Poonamallee; *Tiru- 
valur. 
Coromandel coast—Pondicherri ; Genji. 
Salem District—*VYercaud in the Shevaroy 
Hills. 
Coimbatore District—*Ootacamund in the 
Nilgiri Hills; foot of Anamalai Hills. 
Mysore—Bangalore, ca. 3000 ft.; French 
Rocks. 
Cochin—Trichur. 
Travancore—Trivandrum ; Athengil*; Aram- 
boly’. 
Ceylon: North-Central Province—*Anuradhapura; *Min- 
neriya ; *Polonuruwa. 
Central Province—*Sigiri; *Nalanda. 
Thelyphonus sepiarts was originally described by Butler (1873, 
p. 131) from ‘‘ Tongoo”’ (? =Taung-ngu) in Burma and from Ceylon; 
and Pocock (1894, p. 134) states that the type of Butler’s T. nigre- 
scens from Tenasserim is identical with 7. sefiaris. But no original 
records from outside the Indian Peninsula appear to have been 
made since. Pocock (1900 b, p. 105, foot-note) regards the local- 
ity recorded for T. nigrescens as probably incorrect ; and in this 
he is doubtless right. 
The Tongoo cotypes of 7. sepiarts were only lent to Butler 
and seem now to have disappeared-—possibly they may have 


! Mr. Fischer tells me that his observations on the courtship of the species 
(1911) were made at this place. 
2 Specimens in the Trivandrum Museum. 
