1915. ] F. H. GRAVELY : Ortental Tarantulidae. 455 
Phrynichus bacillifer (Gerstaecker).! 
This species, according to Kraepelin, occurs from Madagascar 
and Zanzibar to Mozambique, Tanganyika and Lake Rudolph. 
Phrynichus deflersi (Simon).? 
Described from a single specimen from Obock in French Somali- 
land. 
Phrynichus jayakeri, Pocock.’ 
Described from two specimens from Muscat in Arabia. 
Phrynichus spp. 
The above record of the distribution of various species of 
Phrynichus by no means exhausts the localities given by previous 
authors. Most of the additional localities refer to the composite 
‘“species’’ to which Kraepelin applied the name P. reniformis ; 
others refer to species which have clearly been wrongly named. 
These localities, and those of certain immature specimens in the 
Indian Museum collection, show the distribution of the genus to be 
wider than appears above, and may therefore be recorded here :— 
Africa: Natal; Mozambique; Kondoa (? French Congo) ; 
Massaua (Somaliland); several localities in Central 
Africa (Albert Lake, Kossenje; Kirk Falls south-west 
from Albert Lake; plains below Semliki; Awakubi). 
Madagascar (east coast). 
Asia: Arabia—Aden. 
Assam—Sibsagar. 
Siam—Chantaboon. 
Cochin China—Saigon. 
Malay Peninsula—Penang. 
Genus DAMON, Koch. 
Type D. vartegatus (Perty). 
I have nothing to add to Kraepelin’s account of this genus. 
It is mainly African, but Kraepelin records D. variegatus from 
Arabia as well. 
1 C. v.d. Decken’s Reisen in Ostafrica, I11 (2), p. 472. 
2 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, XII, 1887, p. 454. 
3 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), XIV, p. 294. 
4 Ubersicht des Arachnidensystems, V, p. 81. 
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