302 Mfl. 0. J. WITH ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN CHELlFEEINiE 



which I refer. The measurements are as follows :— Cephalothorax 0-805 (0-690) ; 

 abdomen 1'040 (0-874) mm. 



Palps : trochanter 0-483 (0-299) ; femur 0-805 (0-368) ; tibia 0-851 (0-391) ; hand 

 0-851 (0-529), depth 0-552 ; finger 0-647 mm. 



Leg I.: femur 0-585 (0-182), trochantin 0-114 (0-196) ; tibia 0-456 (0-122) ; tarsus 

 0-418 (0-080) mm. 



Leg IV. : femur 0-798 (0-281) ; tibia 0-669 (0-160) ; tarsus 0-479 (0-110) mm. 



S . A female from the same locality as the above-mentioned male differed from the 

 described female in the following respects. The size is much greater ; the shape of 

 and the proportion between the joints of the palps are almost exactly alike, the only 

 difi"erences worth mentioning being, that the tibia is both longer and wider than the 

 femur, and that the hand is scarcely deeper than wide. In contradistinction to the 

 palps, the legs are much longer and more slender, the tarsus of the first pair of legs 

 being almost five times as long as deep, and the femur of the fourth pair being 2-7 as 

 long as deep and 1-7 lower than the tarsus is long. 



The measurements are the following: — Cephalothorax 0-920 (0'S05) ; abdomen 4-25 

 (1-75) mm. 



Palps: trochanter 0-506 (0-299); femur 0-828 (0-391); tibia 0-897 (0-425); hand 

 0-989 (0-575), depth 0-575 ; finger 0-690 mm. 



Leg I. : femur 0-623 (0-185), trochantin 0-114 (0-205) ; tibia 0-494 (0-135) ; tarsus 

 0-441 (0-090) mm. 



Leg IV.: femur 0-836 (0-312); tibia 0-722 (0-175) ; tarsus 0-494 (0-114) mm. 



Uaterial. — Of this species I have examined a number of specimens, of which only a 

 few are completely similar to those described, most agi-eeing with the variation. The 

 Danish ' Galathea ' Expedition brought home from Bahia the described male and 

 female, the latter carrying a bundle of eggs ; Professor Reinhardt collected in Rio 

 Janeiro a single somewhat larger female, which had the tarsus of the first pair of legs 

 4-4 as long as deep, and the vulva, wide open, showing two remarkable bodies within. 

 In Venezuela Dr. Meinert from August to January sifted ten specimens (6 ? and 4 6 ) 

 of very different size, mentioned above under variation ; among these a female with 

 a bundle of eggs in the month of December. Prom New Granada a single female was 

 examined (Keys. Coll.). Mr. H. H. Smith collected a single female with a bundle of 

 eggs, in the Old Botanical Garden, Kingstown, Island of St. Vincent, in the month of 

 October in rotten wood, 500 ft., and three females, carrying bundles of embryos, each 

 bundle like a fruit of a Malva, in Bornwood Valley, near Kingstown, 800 ft., Island 

 of St. Vincent, under the bark of rotten log. 



This species has previously been mentioned by Balzan from Paraguay and Brazil 

 (Matto Grosso), and by EUingsen from Argentine, Uruguay, Paraguay, and different 

 localities in Brazil. 



