182 Mr. C. O. Watcrhousc on Chcrnetida. 



thorax so much produced anteriorly as in the species 

 produced by him. I think, however, that it would be 

 unadvisable to propose a new genus for it on such slight 

 grounds, and I, therefore, place it for the present in that 

 genus. 



I propose to name it — 



Garypus saxicola. 



Total length 7 millm., total length of palpus 11 millm. 



The whole of the upper side is ashy-grey, the divisions 

 between the abdominal segments and the whole underside 

 are much paler, approaching to white ; the palpi are rather 

 darker than the upper surface of the body, and are tinged 

 with gre}dsh-purple, the apical joint rather more brown ; 

 the legs are pale testaceous. 



The cephalothorax is broadest behind, narrowed in 

 front, with a scarcely-perceptible mesial longitudinal im- 

 pression in front. Two eyes on each side, placed on a 

 slio-ht swellinor. 



Mandibles shining, pitchy-testaceous, beset with a few 

 long bristles. Palpi with the coxal joint short ]3ear-shaped, 

 testaceous, thickly but very finely granular, beset with a 

 few very short fine bristles ; the femoral and tibial joints 

 a little enlarged towards their apex, thickly and very finely 

 granular, the former very nearly \ longer than the tibial 

 joint; the last joint very nearly twice as long as the 

 femoral joint, extremely finely granular, the finger about 

 \ longer than the swollen part, rather strongly granular 

 and beset with some fine bristles. The abdominal seg- 

 ments are divided in the middle, closely, finely, but dis- 

 tinctly granular in the same manner as the cephalothorax. 



Hah. — Spain. Brit. Mus. 



I have been using a compound microscope, Avith a low 

 power {\\ inch), to give the sculpture. With this glass 

 the granulation of the cephalothorax and abdomen and 

 fingers of the palpi are easily seen, but the sculpture of 

 the femoral and tibial joints of the palpi is only seen by 

 looking very carefully. 



The specimen fi'om which I have taken my description 

 lived until September last ; it caught house-flies which 

 I placed in the box with it, and I noticed that the flies 

 died very quickly when only held even by one pair of 

 claws fixed in the thorax. 



