294 Mr. B. I. Pocock on some new or 



Proscrateafiilviceps, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 509 (1839). 

 O.ryhaloa fulviceps, Brunn. Svst. Blatt. p. 255 (1865). 

 NauphcBta rvjiceps. Walk. Cat. Blatt. p. 39. n. 11 (1868). 

 l^chno'ptera riificeps, Walk. /. c. p. 123. n. 64 (1868). 

 Nouphosta signifrons, Walk. I. c. p. 40. n. 12. 



2, Pretoria, Nov. 1894 (Distant) ; 7, Barberton [Rendall) ; 

 ], Blantyre (Elson). Cape [Tfiunherg) ; Pirie Bush, Delagoa 

 Bay, Machakos, Durban, Natal (Nat. Hist. Mus.). 



Varies in colour from ferruginous to nearly black, but may 

 always be known by the red head, with a large square blotch 

 in front. 



XXXVIII. — Some new or little-known Thelyphonidge and 

 Solifugae. By R. I. Pocock. 



Family Thelyphonidae. 



Genus Hypoctonus, Thorell. 



Hypoctonus granosus, sp. n. (Fig. 4.) 



Colour. Upperside of trunk blackish, lower side casta- 

 neous ; chelae black ; legs of first pair reddish brown ; femora 

 and patellie of second, third, and fourth legs blackish, re- 

 maining segments reddish brown. 



Triwk sculptured and granular above as in H. formosus ; 

 abdominal sterna sparsely punctured and weakly striate ; 

 first sternal plate (genital operculum) with the middle of 

 its posterior border convexly produced and defined by a 

 transverse depression ; the anterior part of the plate marked 

 on each side with a deep transversely oval pit, behind these 

 in the middle line there is also a median longitudinal depres- 

 sion, deeper in front than behind. 



Chelce resembling those of IL formosus in form and spine- 

 armature, but differing in having the upper as well as the 

 underside of the trochanter, femur, tibia, and hand studded 

 wiih coarse round granules. 



Legs of third and fourth pairs with tibial spur, apical 

 tarsal segment of first longer tlian the seventh and eighth. 



Ommatoids fairly large, separated by a space which is 

 about equal to a diameter and a half. 



Total length 33 millim. 



Loc. Yunnan. 



A single female example. 



Recognizable from all the known species by the coarse 

 granulation of the upperside of the chelse. 



