586 CLASS ix. 



abdomen. Mandibles monodactylous. Palps spinose. Ocelli eight, 

 situated at the anterior part of cephalothorax ; the two middle 

 approximate on a common tubercle ; three on each side marginal, 

 disposed in a triangle. Two anterior feet longer, with tarsi claw- 

 less, slender, multiarticulate. 



Phrynus OLIV. (Species of Phalangium L., Tarantula FABR. 

 in part). Palps supplied at the apex with a horny claw, of the 

 length of body or longer than body. First pair of feet slender, 

 very long, resembling antennge, with tibiae and tarsi multiarticulate. 

 Body depressed. Cephalothorax broad, semicircular, emarginate 

 posteriorly. 



Sp. Phrynus lunatus, Phalangium lunatum PALL., Phalangium reniforme 

 L. (in part), PALLAS Spicil. Zool. ix. Tab. 3, fig. 5, HERBST Natursyst. der 

 ungefl. Ins. I. Berlin, 1797, Tab. m., LATR., Hist. nat. des Crust, et des 

 Ins. PI. 6 1, fig. i ; Phrynus reniformis, Phalangium renifonne PALL, (not 

 L.), Spic. Zool. Tab. cit. fig. 3, DUMERIL Cons. yen. s. I. Ins. PI. 56, 

 fig. 2, &c. 



Comp. J. VAN DER HOEVEN, Bijdragen tot de kennis van het geslacht 

 Phrynus, Tijdschr. voor nat. Geschied. en Physiol. ix. pp. 68 91. PI. I. n. 



Telyphonus LATR. (Species of. Phalangium L., Tarantula FABR. 

 in part). Palps thick, terminated by hand didactylous, shorter 

 than body. First pair of feet with tarsi eight-jointed, and tibia 

 with two joints. Cephalothorax oblong, oval, not broader than 

 abdomen. Abdomen terminated by an articulate seta. 



Sp. Telyphonus proscorpio LATR., Phalangium caudatum L., Spic. Zool. ix. 

 Tab. 3, figs, i, 2, GUERIN Iconogr. } Arach. PI. 3, fig. 3 (is it the same 

 species ?) ; hab. in Java. 



Note. The species of this, as well as of the preceding genus, are difficult 

 to distinguish. They are found in tropical regions of both hemispheres : 

 none European is known. On the Telephone comp. LUCAS in GUERIN 

 Magas. de Zool. 1835. Arachn. PI. 8 10. 



Family XIV. Scorpiones. Abdomen sessile. Stigmata four 

 on each side, in the second, third, fourth and fifth ventral scuta. 

 Mandibles didactylous. Palps longer than feet, terminated by 

 hand didactylous with external finger mobile. Six last segments of 

 abdomen abruptly narrowed, resembling a tail ; last segment vesi- 

 cular, terminated by an incurved sting. Feet increasing in length 

 from the first towards the last pair, moderate, all biunguiculate at 

 the apex. Two pectinate appendages, with teeth different in number, 



