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smooth. Again, the 2ud and 4th abdominal sterna are finely 

 granular in the middle ; and, lastly, the vesicle is more strongly 

 inflated, its width considerably exceeding its height and being 

 equal to that of the 4th caudal segment. 



In the female the width of the vesicle is scarcely greater than 

 its height and less than the width of the 5th segment. 



Fectinal teeth 11-13 ( d" $ ). 



Total length ( c5' ) 82 mm., carapace 13-5, tail 38, underhand 8-5, 

 width of hand 12. 



Pandinus PEELi Pocock. 

 Cf. supra, p. 53. 



Pandinus hawkeri, sp. n. 



Colour of carapace and palpi yellowish brown ; tergal plates and 

 tail reddish brown ; vesicle brown with yellow lines ; legs entirely 

 pale yellow, abdominal sterna testaceous. 



Carapace smooth, polished; terga also smooth, punctured 

 along the posterior margin, the last very weakly granular laterally, 

 the crests obsolete. Sterna, with exception of ihe last, smooth ; 

 the last obsoletely crested, but mesially closely granular. 



Tail short, only a little more than tw o and a half times the length 

 of the carapace, which is almost as long as its first three segments; 

 the inferior median keels absent on segments 1-5, the inferior 

 laterals present, smooth on segments 1 and 2, granular on 3 to 5, 

 the area of the lower surface of the tail between them granular as 

 in P. colei ; superior and superior-lateral keels of tail weak, 

 punctured, but not granular ; sides of tail smooth ; upper surface 

 at most very sparsely granular, except along the posterior edge of 

 segments 1-4, where there is a series of denticuliform granules ; 

 vehicle strongly punctured and setose beneath, but scarcely 

 granular, its width exceeding its height. CJielce: humerus smooth 

 below and behind, the crests on its upper and anterior surfaces 

 coarsely granular, its upperside sparsely granular in the basal 

 half ; brachium smooth, except for some minute granules in front 

 and some coarser ones along the anterior inferior crest : hand 

 moderately wide, its width equal to three-fourths the length of 

 the carapace ; upper surface granular on the external slope above 

 the strong keel of the underhand; the rest of the upper surface 

 nearly smooth and polished, beset with a fine reticulation of ridges 

 which are almost obsolete in adult, coarser in young ; inner edge 

 almost smooth, punctured, lower surface sparsely and weakly 

 granular towards the base of immovable digit ; immovable digit 

 with its basal width less than half the length of ils biting-edge; 

 movable digit shorter than carapace, exceeding width of hand, 

 equal to length of 3rd and 4th caudal segments. 



Legs smooth ; protarsi of 1st and 2nd with one posterior apical 

 spine; tarsal lobes with two spines; lower surface of tarsi with 

 one anterior and three posterior spines ; anterior claw much 

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