ON SOME PSEUDOSCORPIONS FROM JAPAN. 7 



Species of small size (about 2 mm.), femur slender, tibia 

 elongate, fingers considerably longer than hand, galea 

 divided nearly from the base into simple branches 



M. pygmaea Ell. 



Microcreagris gigas Balzan 



var. japonica nov. 

 The following particulars may be added to Balzan's descrip- 

 tion : the sclerites are very minutely shagreened, the palps nearly 

 smooth, only the hand somewhat shagreened. 



The variety is of considerably smaller size than the typical 

 species, being only about 4 mm. ; but it must be added that the 

 abdomen is much contracted, and it may be that Balzan's 

 type (more than 7 mm. long) has had the abdomen extended. 

 — This species, or at least the variety, is in some respects 

 somewhat variable. The stalk of the femur may be more or 

 less distinct (according to Balzan, the outer margin of the femur 

 passes without interruption into the stalk). The céphalothorax 

 may be somewhat longer than it is wide ; but the galea, in par- 

 ticular, varies considerably; it may, as in the type, consist of 

 a trunk and two pairs of small teeth at the extremity, but it 

 may also be provided with branches, or rather be divided from 

 midway into two branches, and these provided with long or 

 short teeth. Further, in the variety, the tooth of the front mar- 

 gin of the céphalothorax is rather small. 



Localities. Yamafiaka, March, 1905, 6 specimens; Okayama,May, 

 1904, 6 specimens; Takakiyama, March, 1905, 1 specimen; Ooyama, 

 September, 1905, 1 specimen; Kuenji, August, 1905, 1 specimen. 



Microcreagris granulata, nov. sp. 



Four large eyes, two on each side, placed near each other, 

 the anterior one more than a diameter from the front margin. 



Céphalothorax and palps reddish brown, the sclerites oliva- 

 ceous brown, the legs and the interstitial pai'ts pale yellowish brown. 



