222 BRITISH SPECIES OP FALSE-SCORPIONS. 



A single example was found some years ago among dead leaves, 

 &c., in a wood at Bloxworth, and determined by M. Simon to be 

 C, meridianus, L. Koch. 



CHELIFER SUBRUBER. PI. C, fig. 14. 



Syn : C. subruber, Simon Arachn. de France, torn. 7, p. 30 

 (1872). 



Length 1 line to 1 J. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown, slightly tinged with red; palpi 

 red-brown; abdominal plates deep brown ; legs pale yellow-brown. 

 The surface of the cephalothorax and abdominal plates is densely 

 shagreened ; the sides of the thorax are granulose ; each of the 

 abdominal plates is furnished with a row of short claviform hairs 

 on the hinder margin. The hairs on the cephalothorax are also 

 clavate. Some of the hairs on the palpi are obtuse, some clavate ; 

 those on the claws of the pincers fine. The groove dividing the 

 caput and thorax is strong, and the posterior portion of the thorax 

 is half its width. The caput and thorax are of nearly about equal 

 width. The anterior margin of the caput is strongly and somewhat 

 roundly obtuse, and the eyes, which are large, are placed nearly 

 half a diameter's length from it. 



Palpi moderately long, tolerably strong ; the axillary joint is 

 strongly and obtusely protuberant on the upper side ; the humeral 

 and cubital joints are of equal length. The claws of the pincers 

 are slightly curved and considerably shorter than the bulb, the 

 latter being equal in length to the cubital joint without its stem ; 

 the bulb narrows gradually to the claws, running into them without 

 any decided or abrupt depression. 



This species is allied to C. meridianus, L. Koch, but may be 

 distinguished among other characters by the claws being distinctly 

 shorter than the bulb of the pincers, whereas in C. meridianus 

 they are of equal length. 



Examples were kindly sent to me by Mr. W. P. Haydon, by 

 whom they were found in an oil mill at Dover in January, 1880; 

 and I have since (November, 1886) received numerous examples 



