290 Mr. H. I. Pocock on the Pedipalpi of the Family 



b 1 . The above-mentioned spine long, about two thirds 

 the length of the second spine ; the tibial seg- 

 ment greater than the distance between the eyes. bassamensis(Luc). 

 b. Frontal process directed downwards and forwards 

 and ending in a bluntly rounded apex ; eyes spaced 

 as in tibialis ; the tibial spine as in bassamensis . . Johnstonii, sp. n. 



Titanodamon bassamensis (Lucas). 



Phrynus bassamensis, Lucas, in Thomson's Archives Ent. ii. p. 434 



(1*858). 

 Phrynus granulosus, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xii. p. 122, 



pi. vii. fig. 10 (1873). 

 Phrynus Savatieri, Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. Philom. viii. p. 28. 

 Phrynus medius (Herbst), Simon (at least formerly) ; Butler, loc. cit. 



p. 120 in part. 



We have ten examples that I believe to be referable to 

 this species. Some are without localities ; others, however, 

 are ticketed Sierra Leone and Ashanti. It is on the strength 

 of these latter two localities that I venture to regard Savatieri 

 and bassamensis as identical. The former was recorded from 

 Senegal and the latter from Grand Bassam, which is close to 

 the locality Dixcove, in Ashanti, whence one of the British 

 Museum examples came. 



The type of granulosus, Butler, i. e. the specimen figured, 

 which is provided with ova and preserved in alcohol, is refer- 

 able to the same species ; but its locality, which, by the way, 

 is indicated as doubtfully S. America, is probably erroneous. 

 The dried specimen mentioned by Mr. Butler as belonging to 

 this species is an example of the South-American species 

 Heterophrynus chiracanthus (Gerv.). 



Why this species should be identified as medius of Herbst* 

 I cannot understand. Herbst's figure represents an animal 

 with much stouter and shorter chelae, and the tibia has no less 

 than four large spines upon it, the fourth large spine from 

 the distal end being approximately equal to the third. In 

 this character it differs from all the species of the genus 

 known to me. 



Titanodamon Kochii, Butler (loc. cit. p. 120), established 

 for the specimen probably wrongly identified as T. medius 

 (Herbst) by Koch, is perhaps identical with bassamensis-, but 

 I do not think the union of the two at present justifiable. 

 The specimen in this Museum identified by Mr. Butler as 

 T. Kochii may be correctly named ; but since it has neither 

 carapace nor locality, I cannot be sure of the point. 



* Nat. ungefliigelt. Ins. pt. i. p. 77, pi. iv. fig. 1. 



