CHELIFERID.E AKD GARyPID^ IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 71 



Palps (PI. 9. fig. 27). — The partly granular maxillse are gradually 

 attenuated towards the end, as the manducatory part is not well defined 

 behind, providing similarity to those of G. saxicola. With (18. fig. 15, p. 92). 

 The surface o£ the three proximal joints is covered by a mosaic o£ rounded 

 plates, partly falling off in small pieces, as if they formed only a covering ; 

 the hand is very minutely granular ; number of short obtuse hairs present. 

 The trochanter, which is about 1*6 as long as wide, is strongly convex anteriorly 

 and slightly produced posteriorly. The femur, which is 4'5 as long as wide, is 

 beyond the short and not well-defined stalk gradually and distinctly enlarged 

 towards the end, with both outlines almost straight. The tibia, which has a 

 fairly long, not very well-defined stalk (beyond which it is distinctly widened 

 out towards the end), is distinctly shorter and wider than the femur ; it is 

 almost 3"5 as long as wide with nearly straight lateral outlines. The chela, 

 which is almost four times as long as wide, is 1"8 wider than the tibia. The 

 hand is 1-8 as long as wide, distinctly wider than deep, and almost 1'2 shorter 

 than the fingers ; the anterior outline is strongly convex, the posterior and 

 the dorsal and ventral outlines are only slightly so. T^q fingers bear a close 

 row of short pointed marginal teeth from base to tip ; the number of the 

 immovable fingers is at least 100. 



Coxce. — The coxse are very long and slender, especially the fourth pair, 

 which have inner and hinder margins merging into each other without limi- 

 tation and which are 3*5 as long as wide, being as a whole scarcely different 

 from those of G. saxicola, Wath. (cf. 18. fig. 15, p. 92). 



Legs (PI. 9. fig. 28 ; cf. 18. figs. 9 a-h, p. 41). — The proximal joints with 

 mosaic of plates like the palps ; the hairs are dorsally short, widest in the 

 middle and then suddenly pointed, ventrally longer and generally pointed, 

 especially those of the tarsi, which are somewhat similar to spines. The 

 arolium scarcely extends beyond the slender, strongly curved claws. The 

 basal femoral part of the first pair of legs, which is distinctly widened out 

 towards the end and there somewhat deeper than the distal part, is 2*8 as long- 

 as deep and 1'7 as long as the latter. The tarsal joints^ of which the first is 

 at least 1*1 as long as the second, are at least 1"3 as long as the tibia. The 

 femur of the fourth pair of legs is about 4 as long as deep, and the tibia is 1*3 

 as long as the tarsal joints. 



Colour. — The palps are yellowish with reddish chelse. The cephalothorax 

 is dark brown with two yellowish spots in each of the tergites. The tergal 

 sclerites of the abdomen are brownish with yellowish spots in the middle and 

 yellow hairs ; rest of abdomen yellowish. 



Measurements. — Cephalothorax 1*27 (1*08); abdomen 3'7 (2"3) mm. 



Palps : trochanter 0-647 (0-414); femur 1-541 (0-345); tibia 1-354 (0-392); 

 hand 1-288 (0*713), depth 0-667; finger 1-518 mm. 



Leg I. : femur I. 0-585 (0-207) ; femur ii. 0-355 (0-195) ; tibia 0-506 

 (0-125) ; tarsus i. 0-368 (0-115) ; tarsus ii. 0-322 (0-095) mm. 



