THELYPHONUS. 105 



Loc. S. India : Madras (Sale, Jerdon, Boileau) ; Ceylon (Holds- 

 worth), Jaffna (Sarasiri) ; Trincomali (Yerbury, Green, Barrett, 

 Basset-Smith); Tenasserim (Packman)*. 



Subspecies indicus, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xlii, p. 138, t. 12, fig. 5, 

 May 28, 1873 (J); Oates, J. A. S. B. Iviii, pt. 2, p. 9, t. ii, 

 figs. 1-6, 1889: beddomei, Xtoliczka, J. A. S. B. xlii, p. 142, t 12 

 tig. 6, 1873 ( $ ). 



Both sexes distinguished from the typical form by having the 

 legs entirely red, and contrasting strongly with the black colour 

 of the upper side of the trunk t. 



Loc. Southern India : Auaimalai Hills (Beddome) ; Nilgiri 

 Hills (Daly) ; Yercaud in the Shevaroy Hills (Henderson) ; French 

 Rocks, Madras (Hamilton). 



Subspecies muricola, Pocock, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xii, p. 745, 1899. 



$ . Like that of T. sepiaris subsp. indices in colour of legs and 

 structural characters. 



cJ . At once recognizable from that of the typical T. sepiaris and 

 of T. sepiaris subsp. indicusty the much greater smoothness of the 

 abdominal sterna, these plates being polished, minutely punctulated, 

 and irregularly transversely striated, the sides only being densely 

 punctured as in the females of T. sepiaris. 



Loc. S. India : Trivandrum in Travancore (Ferguson fy Sullivan). 



87. Thelyphonus cristatus, sp. n. 



$ . Colour and general characters, such as spine-armature of 

 tibiae, granulation of terga, etc., as in T. sepiaris; considerably 

 srnaller than that species ; the 4th, 5th, and 6th sterna with 

 distinct elevated median line, and all the sterna more distinctly 

 punctured, the posterior more so than the anterior, the 7th 

 especially being very distinctly punctured throughout. In the 

 chela? the anterior edge of the upper side of the trochanter ia 

 armed with only one strong tooth, the second being quite small. 



Total length 26 mm. 



Loc. Bengal (Hardwicke). 



88. Thelyphonus schnehagenii, Kraepdm, Abh. Ver. Hamb. xv, 



p. 33, 1897; id Tierr., Scorp. etc. p. 222, 1899. 



5 . Colour of trunk and limbs reddish brown. Carapace and 

 terga rugose, granular ; median line showing only on the anterior 

 three terga. Posterior border of 1st abdominal sternum trans- 

 versely truncate, finely and closely punctured, especially at the 

 sides, "and furnished also with scattered larger punctures; the 



* This locality for the type of T. nigrescent is probably erroneous, 

 t In the case of both subspecies, specimens that have recently moulted have 

 the integument of both bodv and legs reddish brown. 



