Kkw — A Sijnopsis of the False- Scorpions of Britain and Ireland. 47 



of tactile hairs; galea (?) latlier stout, iiKiderately loug, its distal 5 with 

 small processes ; palps (fig. 9) moderately rohust, hand broad with moderate 

 oblique height, anterior margin of fingers with a series of accessory teeth ; 

 sculpture of palp honey-comb-like, bristles rather long, in great part very 

 strongly clavate ; lower face of maxillae nearly smooth ; coxae IV. (?) broad, 

 posterior margin longer than inner ; legs IV. tibia and tarsus withont tactile 

 hairs. 3 with galea a little smaller ; hand more robust, slightly shorter ; 

 coxae IV. widening from narrower base, posterior margm about 2 5 as long as 

 inner. L. 2'.5. 



Under rather close-fitting bark of dead or partly dead trees, oak, beech, hornbeam, etc. ; 

 abuniUnt in the so\ith-east : Epping Forest, Windsor Forest, Burnham Beeches, Eichmond Park, 

 "West Wickhani Common (Kent), Ashtead Forest, Dallington Forest, New Forest, etc. ; under bark 

 of old willows by river-sides : Thames, Lea, etc. ; also in Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, 

 Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, and in Sherwood Forest; but not recorded from north of 

 tlie Jlei-sey and Humber. 



(i2, 58, 80, 84, 87-8.) 



II. Chelifer s.s. 



Legs I.' with articulation between trochantin and femur wide, oblique ; 

 fingers of palps without accessory teeth ; <y with coxal sac, genital-area 

 complex, with plate II. much longer than plate I., and with long ram's-horn 

 organs. Eyes 2. 



(Britannic species 2 : abdomen with tergite XI. diAdded like those in front 

 of it, main tergites generally with 6 bristles in front of the posterior marginal 

 row ; palps only moderately robust or long and slender, femur increasing 

 gradually from stalk and not attaining fiill breadth till near extremity, tibia 

 without marked anterio-proximal convexity, hand more or less oval ; S with 

 genital-area and secondary characters conspicuous,' the ram's-horn organs 

 protrusible in forward lateral dii'ection far beyond trochanters of palps, 

 coxae IV. strongly concave posteriorly, much modified.) 



1. Claws simple Latreillii. 



2. Claws with a tooth cancroides. 



C. Latreillii Leach. 



C. Latreillii Leach 1817 (13). C. BcGecri (C. L. Koch) Simon 1879 (27). 

 ? Palps dark reddish-brown, stalks and extremities distinctly reddish, 

 otherwise darkened with olive, hand nearly lilack with dark reddish 

 fingers ; cephalothorax dark redchsh-brown, anteriorly obsciu-ed with olive 

 nearly black ; abdominal tergites horny-brown, with large dark lirown 

 scar-spots; dull or nearly so, with short obtuse non-cla^•ate bristles. 

 Cephalothorax strongly gi'anulate, not surcharged mth bristle-tubercles, first 



' Lophochernes Simon 1.178 (25) = Chelifer s.s. <J with secondary characters much pronounced. 



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