THELYPHONUS. 



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Genus THELYPHONUS, Latr. 



Thelyphonus, Latretile, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. iii, p. 47, 1802, in 

 part ; also of Lucas, Koch, Butler, Stoliczka, etc. (in part). 



Thelyphonus (emend.), Pocock, A. M. N. H. (6) xiv,p. 121, 1894; 

 Kraepelin, Abh. Ver. Hamb. xv. p. 19, 1897; id. Tierr., Scorn, 

 etc. p. 212, 1899. 



Fig. 31. Thelyphonus indicus. 



A. Lower side of cephalothorax and abdomen, $> . a, coxa of chela ; I, prosternal 



plate ; c, coxa of 2nd leg ; d, mesosternal plate ; e, coxa of 3rd leg ; 

 f, rnetasternal plate; g, first sternum, h, second sternum, i, third 

 sternum, k, fourth sternum, showing muscular sigilla, of abdomen. 



B. Anterior extremity of carapace : /, median, n, lateral eyes ; m, crest. 



C. Maxillary processes of chelae. 



D. Lower side of anterior end of abdomen of J : o, first sternum ; p, tooth 



on second sternum. 



E. Lower side of anterior end of abdomen of $?. 



Carapace with granular crest, running forwards from the lateral 

 eyes on each side ; median eyes situated one on each side of a 

 high distinct ocular tubercle ; maxillary process of chelee not 

 toothed internally. Chelee in c? thicker but not much longer than 

 in $ ; the tibial apophysis of the same form in hoth sexes, with 

 toothed edges and terminating in a sharp point. 1'irst abdominal 

 sternal plate in d 1 with deep median groove; 2nd with median 

 tooth-like spine. 



Type, T. caudatus (Linn.). Java. 



Distribution. Ceylon and S. India ; Burma, thence eastwards to 

 the Philippine Islands, and over the whole of the Indo- and 

 Austro-Malayan area as far as the Solomon Islands. 



