liuh-knuwn Tliclyphonidrc and Solifuga;. 2i»5 



Genus Laijochikus, Poc. 



In the last iimnbcr of the * Journal of the Bombay Nat. 

 Hist. Sock'ty,' vol. xii. p. 745 (1890), two species of this 

 genus are described by myself; but by an unfortunate error 

 of the ]>rinttT they appear under the same name, cervinus. 

 For the second species, namely the Ofic from Kanara, I here 

 pro|)osc the new name tauricornis. 



Genus Tuelypiionus, Latr. 

 TJielyphonus Waytj sp. n. (ITigs. 3-3 i.) 



Colour nearly black ; legs reddish brown. 



Upperside of trunk rugose, densely punctured; carapace 

 sparsely granular posteriorly and on the lateral slope of its 

 postocular portion ; terga also granular. 



Sterna smooth and polished, minutely punctulate, and beset 

 with a few scattered punctures, the first with its posterior 

 border produced and acutely emarginate in the middle. 



Chela: with coxai nearly smooth ; trochanters weakly 

 granular above, armed below with 2 teetli, above with 5, 

 the anterior and the angular large ; femur weakly granular 

 below ; rest of the segments smooth, sparsely punctured ; 

 femur armed internally with 2 small denticles above and 1 

 below ; tibia also with 2 small denticles on its inner side ; 

 apophysis with 1 distal tooth on its posterior side, its anterior 

 side and inner side of hand denticulate. 



First leg with second, third, and fourth segments of tarsus 

 longer than wide, about twice as long as wide ; fifth and sixth 

 a little shorter, but distinctly longer than wide ; seventh about 

 as long as the sixth, longer than the eighth; ninth about 

 twice as long as the eighth, but not so long as the seventh and 

 eighth ; the sixth, seventh, and eighth modified, the sixth 

 with a small nodular prominence at its distal end below ; 

 the seventh with nodular prominence much larger and tipped 

 with a small spinule, the outer side of the segment strongly 

 convex ; eighth with nodular prominence similar to that of 

 seventh, but smaller ; ninth segment unmoilified. 



Legs oi second, third, and fourth segments with tibial spur. 



Ommatoids large, round, about a diameter and a half 

 apart. 



Total length 34 millim. 



Loc, Battambaug in Siam. 



A single fen)ale specinien, collected and kindly presented 

 to the British Museum by Mr. Herbert W. L. Way. 



At once recognizable from all the species that have been 



