106 TIIELTPHONID.E. 



rest of the sterna also finely and closely punctured, without trace 

 of middle line. Chela with coxa smooth, very sparsely punctured ; 

 maxillary process not shouldered on its inner edge ; trochauter 

 armed as in T. sepiaris ; femur moderately thickly rugose, with 

 conspicuous spine on the upper edge in front ; tibia very sparsely 

 and coarsely punctured, the apophysis with two strong teeth 

 on the outer border towards the tip ; hand tolerably thickly 

 and coarsely punctured, with shortly toothed inner edge. Tibia 

 of 4th leg with apical spine. Caudal filament nearly naked. 



Length 32 mm. 



Loc. Burma : Eangoon (Scknehogen). 



Genus UROPROCTUS, Pocock. 



Uroproctus, Pocock, A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 129, 1894 ; Kraep. Abh. 

 Ver. Hamb. xv, p. 40, 1897 ; id. Tierr., Scorp. etc. p. 225, 1899. 



A. B. Carapace with sharp ridge 



running forward on each side 

 from the lateral eyes; median 

 ocular tubercle high. Maxillary 

 process of coxa of chela armed 

 internally with a strong tooth. 

 1st abdominal sternum in J 

 without median groove ; 2nd 

 scarcely toothed in the middle 

 of its hinder border. Chelce in 



Fig. 32.- Uroproctus assamensis. male lar g er than in f emale > tibial 



A. Maxillary processes of chela. apophysis different in the two 



B. Chela of tf . sexes. 



Type, U. assamensis (Stoliczka). 

 Distribution. Hilly region of Assam and North-eastern Bengal. 



89. Uroproctns assamensis, Stoliczka, J. A. S. 3. xxxviii, pt. 2, 

 p. 205, t. 19, fig. 1, 1869 ; id. op. cit. xlii, pt. 2, p. 133, 1. 12. fig. 2, 

 1873; Gates, op. cit. Iviii, pt. 2, p. 8, pi. ri, fig. 13, 1889 (Thely- 

 phonus); Pocock, A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 129, 1894; Kraep. 

 Abh. Ver. Hamb. xv, p. 40, 1897 ; id. Tierr., Siorp. etc. p. 226, 

 1899 (Uroproctus) : scabrinus, Stoliczka, op. tit. xlii, pt. 2, p. 130, 

 t. 12, fig. 1, 1873; angustus, Stoliczka, op. cit. p. 134, t. 12, fig. 3 

 (in part ; not angustus, Lucas) : rufimanus, Butler, A. M. N. H. 

 (4) x, p. 202, 1872 (nee ruj.manus, Lucas), $ : proscorpio, id. ibid. 

 (nee proscorpio, Latreille), <j> : psittacinus, id. Cist. Ent. i, p. 129, 

 1873, <f (Thelyphonus). 



^ . Colour black, especially on carapace and chelae, extremities 

 of legs reddish brown, underside of cephalothorax and abdomen 

 rich mahogany-brown ; in recently moulted specimens the whole 

 colour is much redder. Upper side of body roughened with 

 sculpturing of close-set punctures and studded with granules. 

 First abdominal sternum coarsely punctured and transversely 

 grooved, with posterior border widely rounded in the middle, 



