Moe OLES -ON -PEDIPALPI.IN Tie gCoiw tl & C- 
LION OF THE INDIAN. MUSE USGL 
By F. H. Gravety, M.Sc., Assistant Superintendent, Indian 
- Museum. 
III.—SomE NEW AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES OF 
HYPOCTONUS. 
With the exception of H. andersoni, Oates, and H. stoliczkae, 
n. sp., all the specimens on which the following descriptions are 
based have been added to our collection during the last year. 
Figures will be published in a subsequent paper dealing with the 
Oriental Pedipalpi as a whole, in which also I propose to dis- 
cuss generic definitions in the light of the facts here published. 
A.—Sphecies with tibial spurs on the last parr of legs only. 
H. dawnae, n. sp. 
This species is abundant on the eastern slope of the Dawna 
hills in the Amherst District of Lower Burma from Sukli near the 
top of the range to Thingannyinaung at the bottom. I obtained 
a single specimen from Misty Hollow near the top of the western 
slope. It may, perhaps, be found over the whole of both slopes in 
the rains! The presence of a distinct though faint and incom- 
plete ridge between the eyes might seem to indicate that the 
species ought to be placed in the genus Thelyphonus. In all other 
respects, however, it is a typical Hypoctonus. The form of the 
tibial apophysis of the male especially is that of a Hypoctonus and 
not a Thelyphonus. 
Description.— 7. Tength of carapace 9°5-10°5 mm., maximum 
breadth 5°5—6 mm. Colour black above, with reddish-brown 
legs; beneath the body and arms are redder though darker than the 
legs. Carapace usually smooth in front and at the sides, more or 
less transversely rugose behind the median pair of eyes which eyes 
are separated from one another by a ridge whose width is about equal 
to the diameter of each eye. Behind this rugose area two coarsely 
granular bands extend backwards, one on either side of a median 
furrow of varying distinctness, each of them separated by a some- 
what narrower smooth band from a distinct though not very strong 
granular ridge which extends forwards from the lateral eyes to- 
wards the median ones as in the genus Thelyphonus, disappearing 
about halfway between the two. The whole of the posterior part 
1 My collections were made towards the end of November only. 
