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been set into the abbreviated end of the process. The remaining five 

 joints are in form, relative size and denticulations, exactly like those of Th. 

 scabrinus on a small scale, with the single exception that, as already observ- 

 ed, they are mostly smooth. The eight tarsi of the first attenuated pair of 

 feet are considerably shorter than the preceding metatarsus. The remain- 

 ing feet have the femoral joints depressed and finely granular above. 



Colour of adult, above, blackish brown, somewhat less pure on the abdo- 

 men and with the three terminal joints of the cheliceres reddish brown, coxal 

 and femoral joints of all feet olivaceous brown, remaining joints bright red ; 

 lower side entirely reddish brown, only the second and third joints of the 

 cheliceres, the points or denticles of all the other joints, the prosternum, the 

 femora, the external margins of the abdominal segments, including near- 

 ly the whole of the four terminal ones, are blackish ; the shades of brown, 

 however, slightly differ : the last joint of the cheliceres being rather bright 

 red, the first pair of feet reddish brown, the coxae and sternum yellowish 

 brown and the abdomen chesnut brown ; the seta is reddish brown. 



Younger specimens have all the upper dark brown as well as the lower 

 reddish coloration paler, but the ends of the cheliceres are bright red and 

 the feet and caudal seta yellowish red. In the four specimens from Sikkim 

 and Penang the femoral joints of the first pair of feet are dark, in the two 

 specimens from Moulmein the whole of these feet are reddish brown. 

 The largest specimen from Sikkim measures : — 



Total length (excluding the seta), 31 m.ra. 



Length of five terminal joints of cheliceres, 11 „ „ 



„ „ cephalothorax, 10 „ „ 



„ „ abdomen, 20 „ „ 



„ „ first pair of feet (excluding the coxa),..... 26 „ „ 



„ ,, second, ., 16*5 „ ,y 



„ „ third, 17 5 „ „ 



„ „ fourth, 255 „ „ 



„ „ caudal seta, 26*5 „ „ 



A comparison of my figures and description of the present species with 

 those of Lucas (loc. cit.) will show, that the form of the body, the propor- 

 tions of the different joints and the coloration agree as closely as could be 

 expected, so much so that I can scarcely doubt the identity of the two. 

 There is only one point in Lucas' description which, although in itself ap- 

 parently of no very great importance, is contradictory to what can be observed 

 in my specimens. Lucas says that the third joint of the cheliceres is smooth 

 on the upper inner edge, and provided with a spine only on the lower edge, 

 while in all my specimens there is a distinct though very small spine on the 

 upper edge and a somewhat larger one on the lower. As Lucas' type is in 

 the Paris Museum, it will be comparatively easy to settle this point by a 

 re-examination of the specimen. 



