228 BRITISH SPECIES OF FALSE-SCORPIONS. 



this species among debris during a visit to the late Mr. J. C. Dale 

 at Glanville's Wootton some years ago, and another was subse- 

 quently sent to me from Sherborne by my nephew (Fredk. 0. P. 

 Cambridge). * 



It may easily be distinguished from C. cimicoides by the longer 

 less strong palpi, and by the less strong and not so thickly or 

 uniformly disposed clavate hairs ; from the other two British species 

 of this genus it may be known by its having clavate and not simple 

 hairs. The two specimens noted were determined by M. Simon, at 

 the time of their capture, to be the CJielifer phaleratus, Sim. 

 and an example in the British Museum collection was found at 

 Hillingdon, Middlesex; but on submitting to him a short time 

 since examples found in the New Forest (see next species) there 

 seems no doubt that these latter examples are the true C. phaleratus, 

 Sim., and, though M. Simon thinks that the two others may be 

 less developed examples of the same species, I have come to the 

 conclusion, after careful examination and comparison, that the 

 differences pointed out warrant (at any rate for the present) their 

 being described as distinct, and if so probably new to science. 

 Their habitat (among moss) differs also from that of the Ne\v 

 Forest specimens, which were found under bark of trees. 



CHERNES PHALERATUS. PI. C, fig. 20. 



Syn : Clielifer phaleratus, Sim. Arachn. de France, torn. 7, 

 p. 38, pi. 18, fig. 12 (1879). 



Length 1 \ lines. 



Cephalothorax and palpi reddish yellow-brown ; abdomen 

 darker reddish-brown ; legs pale yellowish-brown ; caput and 

 thorax of equal width, the posterior division of the latter rather 

 narrower than the anterior. The whole surface is densely 

 shagreened, more coarsely on the cephalothorax than elsewhere. 

 The hairs are mostly clavate and of a reddish or ferruinous hue. 

 Some, however, on parts of the palpi and legs, are simple. The trans- 

 verse indentations of the cephalothorax are strong, especially that 

 defining the caput, and in the centre of this indentation is a rather 



