SPECIES OF CEYLON PEDIPALPT, 137 
contradiction to the type of habitat recorded for the specimens 
found by M. Ferdinandus, from which the species was originally 
described ; but although the majority of my specimens were found 
under bricks, a few came from under stones, &c., among the sticks 
and dead leaves between the roots of the huge rubber trees near the 
Curator’s office in the Gardens, and from small piles of stones mixed 
with rubbish, but always on or bordering upon open ground ; 
presumably, therefore, the rubbish from which M. Ferdinandus’s 
specimens came had accumulated in some open situation. 
The similar but larger form, the female of which was found so 
abundantly in the shrubberies of the Gardens, and which in my 
previous paper was confounded with Schizomus crassicaudatus, 
proves to be distinct, and to belong to the sub-genus Trithyreus, as 
defined by Hansen ; it is a new species allied to S. (7’.) suboculatus, 
Poc. The small green form also belongs to this sub-genus, and is also 
new. It is not, however, very closely allied to S. (7'.) suboculatus, 
Poc., with which I identified it before seeing Hansen’s elaborate 
description of mature specimens. These two new species may be 
described as follows :-— 
Genus Schizomus, Cook (Sub-genus Trithyreus, Kraep.). 
Schizomus (T'rithyreus) peradeniyensis, n. sp. 
S. crassicaudatus (part), Gravely, 1910. 
6 Unknown. 
¥ Resembles the female of S. (7'.) suboculatus, Poc., in all points 
described by Hansen, except the following: Eye-spots wanting.* 
In the first (antenniform) legs the femur is slightly longer than the 
tibia, and the foot is barely two-thirds as long as the tibia and 
about fourteen times as long as deep ; the second metatarsal joint 
is only two-thirds as long as the tarsus, being slightly shorter than 
the sum of the five proximal tarsal joints ; the second tarsal joint 
is not unusually long, being scarcely as long as the third; the terminal 
tarsal joint is somewhat longer than the sum of the two proximal 
tarsal joints, and about two-fifths as long as the metatarsus. In 
life the dorsal colour is greenish-gray or brownish (never dark olive- 
green), varying considerably in different specimens, and passing 
into a somewhat reddish tint at the anterior end of the carapace 
and towards the extremities of the legs, the whole of the chelicerz 
being reddish-brown; ventrally the colour is paler and more 

* When specimens are seen from above, a pair of ill-defined whitish patches 
will almost invariably be noticed in the position occupied by eye-spots in forms 
which bear them ; but a careful examination of well-illuminated specimens 
in different positions under a Zeiss binocular microscope leads me to believe 
that these patches are in all cases due to the reflexion of light from the polished 
sides of the head immediately above the bases of the chelicerz, the chelicer 
being partially visible through the carapace, 
ut 6(2)11 
