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XV. Description of a new species of Chernetidse 

 (Pseudoscorpionidffi) from Spain. By Chas. 

 O. Waterhouse. 



At 



[Read Feb. 6th, 1878.] 

 the May Meeting of the Entomological Society 



Mr. Grut exhibited a large species of Chelifer which he 

 had received from Mr. Sydney Klein, who had taken the 

 specimen in North Spain, in the crevices of rocks by the 

 sea shore. 



As the species appears to be undoubtedly new, I have 

 thouffht well to describe it. 



I sent a drawing of the specimen to Dr. Ludwig 

 Koch, who has recently published a monograph of the 

 ChernetidcB, and he pronounces it to be distinct from his 

 Garypus litoralis, the only species to which I thought it 

 could possibly be referred. 



Dr. Koch throws some doubt on the species belonging 

 to the genus Garypus, because it has not the cephalo- 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1878. — PART II. (jULY.) 



