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and one below. On the femur of the palpi is found a 
similar reduction of spines, but while the proximal 
ones are lost on tibia, the distal ones are lost on femur; 
in small specimens the armature with spines goes almost 
along the upper and the lower margin of the whole 
anterior side, while in large specimens it hardly occupies 
the proximal half. — Great changes in colour of the 
animals take place together with these transformations. 
Similar changes in the length of the palpi compared 
with the cephalothoracic shield seem also to take place 
in the genus Damon and most likely also in several 
other genera; in Admetus the changes are comparatively 
much slighter, sometimes even rather small. 
The observations mentioned about Phrynichus 
nigrimanus prove that great caution must be applied 
to the determination after most of the hitherto published 
descriptions and chiefly to descriptions of new species. 
It would be very desirable if an able Zoologist. soon 
would undertake a thorough monographie revision of 
this order on a very rich material; the material of 
one rich museum is by far not sufficient. It will be 
necessary to prepare a quantity of exactly executed 
figures of the palpi, partly accompanied by a contour 
of the cephalothorax and the half of the 2d pair of 
legs, if the monograph has to be but somewhat easily 
made use of. 
III, Thelyphonide. 
Stoliezka, F.: Notes on the Indian Species of Thely- 
phonus (Journ. of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengalen, 
Vol. XLII, 1873; II, p. 12643, Pl. X). 
Marx, G.: Notes on Thelyphonus Latr. (Entomologia 
Americana, II, N. 2, 1886, p. 88—40, Pl. I.) — 
Quoted after Ph. Bertkau’s Bericht üb. d. wiss. 
