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'■ tactile " hair is about f removed from the base. The trochantm and the femur 

 proper of the first pair of legs are of almost equal depth and the articulation between 

 them is of the usual structure (c/. figs. 7 g-h) ; the tibia is scarcely 1-1 as long as 

 the tarsus, which is 4-2 longer than deep ; the femur of the fourth pair of legs, 

 which is very abruptly raised beyond the stalk and slightly attenuated towards the 

 end, is 2-2 as long as deep, 1-2 as long as tibia, and I'o lower than tarsus long. 

 When the animal is observed from above, the legs are easily seen to be thicker 

 and more powerful than in the preceding species. 



Colour. — Palps yellowish brown with darker chehie ; cephalothorax, and more 

 especially the abdomen, darker brown. 



Meas-urements. — Cephalothorax 0-782 (0-529); abdomen 1-035 (0-690) mm. 



Palps: trochanter 0-322 (0-175); femur 0-598 (0-175); tibia 0-506 (0-215) ; hand 

 0-437 (0-285), depth 0-253; finger 0-450 mm. 



Leg 1. : femur 0-364 (0-152), trochantin 0-076 (0-152) ; tibia 0-289 (0-099) ; tarsus 

 0-274 (0-065) mm. 



Leg IV.: femur 0-517 (0-236); tibia 0-418 (0-129); tarsus 0-304 (0-071) mm. 



Material. — Of this curious diabolical-looking little species Dr. Fr. Meinert collected 

 a single male at Los Trincheras in the month of December. 



Remarks. — This species is nearly related to Gh. segmentidentatus Balz., but is easily 

 distinguished by the structure of the trochanteral part. 



11. Chelifer insiqnis, sp. n. (Plate XXIX. figs. 9 a-e.) 



Female. 



Cejjhalothorax. — Two prominent real eyes are present. Cephalothorax is distinctly 

 longer than wide, and provided with two almost straight transverse grooves, of which 

 the anterior is the more prominent. Skin distinctly granular everywhere, with a number 

 of short clavate hairs. 



Abdomen. — Abdomen, which in the specimen examined is dilated with eggs, is twice 

 as long as broad and of a fairly slender appearance. All the tergites, with the exception 

 of the eleventh, are longitudinally divided by a rather indistinct line, similarly to the 

 second tergite. Sclerites provided with scale-shaped granules. The hairs, which are 

 slightly clavate, increase in length towards the end of the abdomen from short to 

 fairly long ; their number and arrangement are very curious. The first two tergites, 

 which are rather short, possess only a transverse row along the hindmost margin 

 consisting of about 14 hairs. The following segments have generally in the hindmost 

 rowjjfrom 10 to 14 hairs, the greatest number being in the median tergites, in addition 

 to 2jy lateral hairs and 6 median, placed within pale spots, in front of the row ; 

 exceptions which may be mentioned are that the third tergite has no median hair in 

 front of the row and that the ninth and tenth tergites have on each side two hairs in 



