294 Mr. R. I. Pocock on aome new or 



Proscrateaftilviceps, Burro. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 509 (1839). 

 O.n/haha fuhicep.", Brunn. Svst. Blatt. p. 255 (1865). 

 Naupha'ta rufrrps, AValk. Cat. lilatt. p. 3i). n. 11 (1868). 

 Jsehnoptera riifceps, Walk. /. c. p. 123. n. 64 (1868). 

 Nauphccta sii/ni/rons, Walk. /. c. p. 40. n. 12. 



2, Pretoria, Nov. 1894 {Distant) ; 7, Barberton (Rendall) ; 

 1, Blantyre (Elson). Cape {Thunherg) ; Pirie Busli, Delagoa 

 Bay, Machakos, Durban, Natal (Nat. Hist. Mus.). 



Varies in colour from ferruginous to nearly black, but may 

 always be known by the red head, with a large square blotch 

 in front. 



XXXVIII. — Some new or little-known Thelyphonidai and 

 Solifugse. By R. I. PocoCK. 



Family Thelyphonidae. 



Genus Htpoctonus, Thorell. 



Ilypoctonus granosus, sp. n. (Fig. 4.) 



Colour. Upperside of trunk blackish, lower side casta- 

 neons ; chelas black ; legs of first pair reddish brown ; femora 

 and patella3 of second, third, and fourth legs blackish, re- 

 maining segments reddish brown. 



Trunk sculptured and granular above as in U. formosus ; 

 abdominal sterna sparsely punctured and weakly striate ; 

 first sternal plate (genital operculum) with the middle of 

 its posterior border convexly produced and defined by a 

 transverse depression ; the anterior part of the plate marked 

 on each side with a deep transversely oval pit, behind these 

 in the middle line there is also a median longitudinal depres- 

 sion, deeper in front than behind. 



Chelm resembling those of II. formosus in form and spine- 

 armature, but differing in having the upper as well as the 

 underside of the trochanter, femur, tibia, and hand studded 

 wiih coarse round granules. 



Legs of third and fourth pairs with tibial spur, apical 

 tarsal segment of first longer than tiie seventh and eighth. 



Omwatoids fairly large, separated by a space which is 

 about equal to a diameter and a half. 



Total length 33 millim. 



Loc. Yunnan. 



A single female example. 



Recognizable from all the known species by the coarse 

 granulation of the upperside of the chelae. 



