little-known Thelyplionidai and SoUfugae. 297 



Tn the subjoined table of the species of the genus, based 

 upon the male sex, some of the distinguishing features of this 

 species are set forth, to show its affinity to those that have 

 been already described. 



Typopeltis Dalyi^ sp. n. (Figs. 1-1 c.) 



$. — Colour. Deep reddish black, chelce darker; legs, 

 especially towards the extremities, clearer red ; coxsb and 

 genital operculum castaneous, shining ; upperside of trunk 

 densely punctulate and uniformly but not very closely 

 granular. 



Cheloi with coxa3 punctured and densely punctulate, granular 

 laterally ; trochanter granular, armed with two small teeth 

 below on the lower half of its anterior edge, the upper of the 

 two nearly obsolete ; its upperside almost unarmed in front, 

 only furnished with one or two obsolete teeth, the angle with 

 two or three small teeth, the inner edge untoothed ; femur 

 granular, armed with a single inferior tooth ; tibia granular 

 and punctate, the apophysis long, its distal end bent down- 

 wards almost at right angles, with a large apical expansion ; 

 the convex upper rim of this expansion armed with a series 

 of 9-10 teeth, its inferior angle running out into a sub- 

 cylindrical prominence ; base of apophysis on inner side 

 weakly denticulate ; inner edge of hand lightly convex, armed 

 with a row of sharp denticles ; upperside of hand with a few 

 granules, the rest punctured ; tip of movable finger sharp and 

 closing against the truncate area of the tibial apophysis close 

 to the subcylindrical prominence. 

 Legs 2-4 with tibial spine. 



Genital operculum nearly smooth, swollen, obsoletely 

 grooved and rugose in the middle, depressed posteriorly in 

 the middle line. 



? . — Resembles the male in colour. 



Chela with trochanter armed below with two subequal 

 separated teeth; armed above normally with five teeth, three 

 inner smaller, one anterior and one angular much larger ; 

 femur with an upper and a lower spine ; apophysis thick, 

 abruptly narrowed at the apex, its anterior edge convex, 

 closely dentate, posterior border straight, armed with one long 

 distal and two smaller teeth. 



Tarsi of first leg different on the two sides ; second, third, 

 and fourth segments longish, subequal ; fifth and sixth a 

 little shorter, subequal, seventh and eighth still shorter, sub- 

 equal ; fifth to eighth black and thickened below ; ninth 

 sometimes with an inferior apical notch, sometimes without it, 



