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Legs with numerous, ratfoer short, partly dentate hairs. Fehiora 

 of the posterior pairs of legs moderately broad. Glaws simple. 



Length d" ca. 4 mm., 9 ca, 5 mm. 



Paraguay: Asuncion 1 specimen 9, Puerto Bertoni 33 .specimens, 

 21 d\ 12 9 (A. Bertoni de Winkelried) ; Argentine: Tala 21 specimens, 

 7 o", 17 9, San Lorenzo 2 specimens 9 (Dr. A. Borelli); Brazil: Urucum 

 6 specimens, 1 <f, 5 9 (Dr. A. Borelli), Ceara 1 specimen 9. 



By the goodwill of Mr. Eug. Simon in Paris I have had the good 

 luck to be able to compare my specimens with a specimen (d") deter- 

 minated by Balzan. The galea of this species is generally branched, 

 but it may also be provided only with teeth, 



Cluelifei* Intcriiiedius Balzan. 



1891. Lamprochernes intermedius Balzan, Ann. Soc. ent. France, voi. 60, p. 515, 



tab. 9, fig. 6. 

 1902. Chelifer rofcundatus Ellingsen, Pseudoscorp. de l'Equateur, pag. 152. 



No eyes, ocular spots indistinct. 



Body very narrow, nearly parallelsided. 



Cephalothorax before the anterior transverse groove and palps dark 

 reddish brown, cephalothorax behind the groove paler, tergites and 

 sternites palish brown, legs and the interstitial parts of abdomen 

 greyish white. 



Cephalothorax considerably longer than bròad, smooth and glossy, 

 in the posterior naif almost parallelsided, in the anterior naif regu- 

 larly rounded, provided with dispersed, slig-litly dentate hairs, among 

 them a row along the front margin; the anterior transverse groove 

 distinct and dark, about in the middle, straight or a little convex in 

 the centrai part, the posterior groove almost invisible. 



Abdomen: the last tergite entire, the rest divided longitudinally 

 by a very fine line, the last one may, however, also be more or less 

 divided; the tergites are smooth and glossy, with dentate hairs, some 

 longer hairs on the last somite intermixed. The under surface of ab- 

 domen like the upper one, 



Palps moderately robust, generally somewhat shorter than the body, 

 smooth and glossy, yet somewhat granulated on the conical protube- 

 rance of trochanter, on the lower part of the inner side and on the 

 under side of femur, as well as on some parts of tibia; the palps have 

 numerous hairs, partly slightly dentate, partly pointed, on the fingers 

 pointed hairs with some longer oues intermixed. — Trochanter stalked, 

 distinctly longer than wide, the inner side slightly convex, behind 

 with a low, rounded tubercle near the base, the upper surface with 

 a very strong, conical protuberance. Femur stalked, about twice as 





