CHELIFERID^E AND GAEYPID^ IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 67 



Abdomen. — The abdomen, which is somewhat longer than wide, shows no 

 trace o£ a longitudinal line dorsallj, and is distinctly granular on the trans- 

 verse darker band o£ tergites, which possess about twenty short and pointed 

 or obtuse hairs alono- the hindmost margin. 



Antennce. — The short galea, which scarcely extends beyond the terminal 

 hair, is acute, similar to an awl. The serrula in one specimen as figured 

 (18. fig. 3, p. 17) with penultimate tooth squarely truncate, in another with 

 penultimate acute and basal two teeth more similar to those o£ G. elegans, 

 Sim. (cf. 18. tab. ii. fig. 2 a). The fiagellum consists of a single hair, and 

 the lamina interior is composed ot" a few more or less well-defined teeth 

 (18. tab. ii. fig. 3 a). 



Palps (PI. 8. fig. 20). — The granular maxillce are truncate in front, with 

 manducatory part slender, well defined (cf. 18. tab. i. fig. 6 b). The palps are 

 distinctly and even coarsely granular, with the exception of the almost smooth 

 fingers and less distinctly granular lower surface. The obtuse or pointed 

 hairs are slender and very short. The trochanter, which is about 1'5 as long 

 as wide, is strongly convex in front, and posteriorly produced into a fairly 

 prominent, somewhat rounded distal protuberance ; beneath this a better 

 pronounced, and more conical tubercle is found, which is, however, much 

 smaller and only seen from below. Tiie femur, which is four times as 

 long- as wide, has a short well-defined stalk and has almost straight lateral 

 outlines. The tihia, which has a short well-defined stalk (beyond which it is 

 distinctly widened out towards the end), is much shorter and a trifle wider 

 than femur and is 2"6 as long as wide, anteriorly as well as posteriorly a well- 

 marked basal elevation is found, beyond which outlines are almost straight. 

 The cJiela, which is 3*8 as long as wide, is 1*7 as wide as the tibia ; the hand 

 is 1*6 as long as wide, somewhat wider than deep, and 1*3 shorter than the 

 fingers ; the anterior outline of the hand is strongly convex, but the posterior 

 only slightly so. The immovable finger has from near base to tip about 40 

 conical teeth_, as widely removed from each other as their size at base ; in 

 addition to these about ten accessor^/ teeth are found anteriorly in the middle, 

 standing widely apart ; the movable finger has 40 marginal teeth, which from 

 the base to tip change from low and rounded to long and conical ones. The 

 immovable finger has anteriorly in the middle five " spots," placed in a longi- 

 tudinal row, and posteriorly six ; anteriorly only three tactile hairs observed 

 on immovable finger, and posteriorly four on both fingers. 



Coxce. — The coxae are very similar to those of G. elegans, Sim., the fourth 

 pair only being somewhat more slender (cf. 18. fig. 16, p. 92). 



Legs. — The proximal joints granular ; the hairs dorsally rather short and 

 somewhat obtuse, but ventrally longer and pointed. The arolivm extends 

 distinctly beyond claws at least on fourth pair of legs. The basal femoral 

 part of the first pair of legs, which is distinctly widened out towards the end 

 and there deeper than the distal part, is 3 as long as deep and 1"9 as long as 



