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short and clumsy ; the trochantin o£ the first pair is distinctly deeper than 

 the femur proper, and the tibia is 1'2 as long as the tarsus, which is 3"4 as 

 long as deep ; ihe femur of the fourth pair is 2*4 as long as deep, 1*3 as long 

 as the tibia, and only a trifle lower than the tarsus is long. 



Colour. — The palps are light reddish brown ; the cephalothorax and tergal 

 sclerites are pale brown. 



Measurements. — Cephalothorax 1*380 (1*495) ; abdomen 3*8 (2*3) mm. 

 Palps: trochanter 0*736(0*506); femur 1*196 (0*535); tibia 1*150 (0*552); 

 hand 1*380 (0*647), depth 0*529 ; finger 0*828 mm. 



Leg I. : femur 0-768 (0*243), trochantin 0*106 (0*258); tibia 0*475 (0*160); 

 tarsus 0-384 (0*144) mm. 



Leg IV. : femur 1-064 (0*456); tibia 0*836 (0*236) ; tarsus 0*479 (0*152) 

 mm. 



Material. — A single specimen (?) from Rockhampton examined. 

 Remarks. — This species is nearly related to Ch. brevispinosus, Keyserling 

 (cf. 4. pp. 46-47, & 14. p. 110), but seems to differ by the long and slender 

 chela, which is much wider than deep, and with the hand very much longer 

 than the finger. This species is best characterized by the peculiar structure 

 of the fingers. 



3. Chelifer taierensib, sp. n. (Plate 8. figs. 6-8.) 



? . Ocular spots indistinct. Cephalothorax wider than long, with two 

 rather indistinct transverse stripes and fairly distinctly granular. The 

 fairly long and slender abdomen with sclerites indistinctly shagreened 

 but with the sides distinctly granular, and with twelve rather short 

 slightly clavate hairs along the hindmost margin of the tergite in 

 addition to four in front of the row. The palps partly granular ante- 

 riorly and with very long, pointed hairs on the anterior surface of 

 the femur. The trochanter has anterior outline moderately convex and 

 is posteriorly slightly bigibbose ; femur, which is 2*1 as long as wide, 

 is only slightly widened out towards the extremity, and posteriorly 

 beyond the stalk abruptly convex and then almost straight ; tibia, which 

 is 2'2 as long as wide, is anteriorly as well as posteriorly towards the 

 end somewhat convex. Chela, which is 3*3 as long as wide, is scarcely 

 as broad as the trochanter is long ; hand, which is almost as long as 

 but 1*2 wider than tibia, is a little wider than deep and 1*3 as long as 

 fingers. Tibia of the first pair of legs 1*2 as long as the tarsus, which 

 is 4*4 as long as deep ; femur IV. 2*2 as long as deep and 1*4 lower 

 than the tarsus is long. 

 Cephalothorax. — Ocular spots almost obsolete. The cephalothorax, which 



is somewhat longer than wide^ has two broad, not very prominent, transverse 



stripes. The integument is fairly distinctly granular, with short slightly 



clavate hairs. 



