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Chelifer cancroides L. 



Brazil: Para 1 specimen (Prof. Goeldi). 



This species, common throughout Europe and parts of North Ame- 

 rica, has previously been taken in the most southern parts of South 

 America: Cape Ho ni and Tierra del Fuego. It is generally found in 

 houses; if this be the case with the single specimen from Brazil, is 

 not indicated. 



Chelifer Canestrini! Ralzan. 



1890. Chelifer Canestrinii Balzan, Rov. d Pseudoscorp., p. 430, tav. XV, f. 14. 



Two eyes. 



Body elongate-oval. 



Palps and cephalothorax before the anterior groove reddish brown, 

 behind this groove paler, tergites and sternites brownish, legs and 

 interstitial parts whitish. 



Cephalothorax : posterior half nearly parallelsided, anterior half 

 roundly narrowing forwards, front margin straightened; cephalothorax 

 considerably longer than broad behind, distinctly granulated, some- 

 what opaque ; two strong transverse grooves, the anterior one about 

 in the middle, the posterior one nearer to the hinder margin than 

 to the former, both of them straight. Hairs short, whitish, davate. 



Abdomen: the upper surface very minutely granulose, somewhat 

 opaque, the last tergite entire, the rest divided longitudinally by a 

 fine line; the few hairs left are short, thick, and somewhat davate, 

 the last somite with some longer hairs intermixed. The under sur- 

 face of abdomen rather shagreened, somewhat glossy, the sternites 

 divided as the tergites, hairs simple. 



Palps about as long as the body, coxa smooth and glossy, the other 

 articles of the palps granulated, except the fingers, and somewhat 

 opaque; fingers and some adjacent parts of hand smooth and glossy. — 

 Trochanter, feniur and inner side of tibia with slightly davate hairs, 

 outer^side of tibia and hand with dentate hairs, fingers with pointed 

 hairs, some longer ones intermixed. — Trochanter stalked, a little 

 longer than broad, the inner side strongly convex, behind nearly 

 straight, above with a strong, rounded protuberance. Femur stalked, 

 a little shorter than cephalothorax, about 4 times as long as broad, 

 behind obliquely widened, the outer side \ery little convex, somewhat 

 rounded near the extremity, the inner side straight. Tibia stalked, the 

 outer side nearly straight, only somewhat rounded near the extre- 

 mity, the inner side moderately and regularly convex; it is distinctly 

 shorter, but scarcely broader than femur. Hand stalked, from roundeiì, 

 almost regular base with the outer side nearly straight, only a litt.u 



