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more or less distinctly granular except beneath, most distinctly the dorsal 

 protuberance o£ the trochanter, where the granules are pointed ; the hand is 

 fairly distinctly granular anteriorly, elsewhere more or less smooth. The short 

 hairs are proximally slightly clavate and curved, distally obtuse and dentated. 

 The trochanter, which is 1*5 as long as wide, has the anterior outline distinctly 

 convex beyond the stalk and then terminally a trifle concave ; posteriorly it 

 is only slightly produced, but dorsally it is prolonged into a high, almost semi- 

 circular protuberance. The femur, which has a fairly long and well-defined 

 stalk (beyond which it is widened out somewhat towards the end and then 

 slightly narrower), is about 3*1 as long as wide ; the anterior outline is beyond 

 a short and only slightly marked elevation slightly concave, most distinctly 

 beyond the middle, while the posterior is rather abruptly convex basally, then 

 straight in the middle, and terminally a little convex. The tibia, which has a 

 fairly long but not very well-defined stalk, is distinctly shorter and a little 

 wider than the femur, and is 2'^ as long as wide ; the anterior outline is first 

 moderately convex and then a little concave, while the posterior is beyond the 



Chelifer vigil, n. sp., ^ • Chela of left palp, in ventral view. X 77. 



small condylus and almost obsolete basal elevation straight and then distally 

 a little convex. The chela, which is 4*3 as long as wide, is 1*3 narrower than 

 the trochanter is long ; the hand, which is about as long as and 1*2 as wide as 

 the tibia, is 2"4 as long as wide, a trifle wider than deep, and 1*3 as long as the 

 fingers, which are almost twice as long as the hand is deep, and which gape 

 considerably when closed ; the lateral outlines of the hand as well as the 

 dorsal and ventral ones are very slightly convex or even straight. The im- 

 movable finger has anteriorly five accessory teeth and posteriorly eight in the 



