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shorter than the bulb. The strong clavate hairs will serve to 

 distinguish it at a glance from either of the foregoing species of 

 the genus. 



I have met with this species, though very rarely, under 

 decaying bark of trees at Bloxworth, and have received it 

 from Mr. C. W. Dale, Glanville's Wootton ; Mr. J. C. Bignell, 

 Stonehouse, Devon ; Mr. W. F. Blandford, Marlborough 

 and the New Forest ; and from the late Mr. W. Farren Cam- 

 bridge. Among the synonyms of these species I have included 

 three of the species described by Leach as having two eyes 

 (C. fasciatus, C. Olfersii, and G. Geoffroyi). The type, however, 

 in the British Museum of Leach's C. Geoffroyi has no eyes 

 and is certainly identical with Chernes (Chelifer) cimicoides, 

 while from the damaged condition of the type of C. Olfersii it is 

 impossible to say with certainty what it is, though probably, from 

 its general appearance, and its clavate hairs, it is also identical 

 with G. cimicoides. Chelifer fasciatus, Leach, is given by himself 

 as identical with his C. Geoffroyi, and no doubt it is so. 



CHERNES DUBIUS (sp. n.) PI. C, fig. 19. 



Length slightly over 1 line. 



Cephalothorax, regularly rounded in front, yellow-brown ; caput 

 broader from back to front than the thorax, and the transverse 

 grooves much curved ; palpi, yellowish red-brown ; abdominal 

 segments, pale yellow-brown ; legs, paler. (The colours in the only 

 two specimens in my possession have evidently rather faded, and 

 therefore the natural colour of this species will have been probably 

 darker and richer than above described.) 



The cephalothorax, palpi, legs, and abdomen are all furnished 

 with not very robust yellowish slightly claviform hairs. 



The Palpi are long ; the pincers long and strong ; the bulb is as 

 nearly as possible equal in length to the fixed claw ; the axillary 

 joint is protuberant above near its anterior extremity ; the humeral 

 and cubital joints are equal in length, the latter rather gibbous 

 towards its base on the inner side. I found a single example of 



