Tarantulidge in the British Museum. 295 



on its proximal third with three evenly spaced spines, of 

 which the first is the longest and close to the joint ; between 

 it and the joint, however, there is a shorter spine, and 

 another one lies amongst the spinules between the first and 

 second spine ; the lower surface is armed with one longish 

 spine near the joint, and with another much shorter one 

 nearer the. middle ; the rest of this edge furnished with 

 variously sized minute spines which decrease in size distally. 

 Tibia cylindrical, granular, armed above distally with three 

 long spines, the posterior of these more than half the length 

 of the others ; armed below with three spines, two apical 

 normal, the third small but distinct, lying further back. 

 Tarsus with a small basal superior spine as well as tiie 

 normal long one. 



Legs granular. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 22*5 5 carapace, 

 width 12"5, median length 7*8, distance between eyes 4'2. 

 Chela : length of femur 40, width 1"2 ; length of tibia 40, of 

 its longest spine 6. Legs : femur of first 35, of second 18, of 

 third 18*5, of fourth 17*5 ; tibia of second 20, of third 21, of 

 fourth 22. 



? . Like the male, with shorter chelae &c. Total length 

 17 millim., widtli of carapace 10, length of femur and tibia of 

 chela 33, femur of first leg 20, of second 11, &c. 



Two examples from Muscat [Dr. A. G. Jayakar). 



Evidently very nearly allied to P. Deflersi oi Simon (Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. Fr. 1887, p. 454) from Obock and Aden, but 

 differing in colour and in some particulars of spine-armature, 

 the posterior of the three spines on the tibia of the chela being 

 in Dejlersi minute, and no mention being made of the third, 

 the posterior, spine on the lower surface of this segment, and 

 none of the lateral spine on the anterior border of the cara- 

 pace, &c. 



Phrynichus Phijjsoni^ sp. n. (PI. VIIL fig. 4.) 

 ? Phrynus nigrimanus, C. Koch, Die Aracbn. xv. p. 69. 



(J . Very closely allied to P. Jayakari. 



Colour darker ; carapace deep chestnut ; abdomen olivaceo- 

 flavous ; chelas ferruginous ; legs olivaceo-flavous, spotted 

 with pale markings. 



Caraimce a little smoother, flatter, its anterior border with- 

 out a lateral tooth on each side. 



Chelm much shorter ; trochanter with more anterior spines, 

 its superior crest formed of a few separated spines ; spine- 

 armature oi femur and tibia as in Jayakari, 



