PHRYNID.^. 39 



CASE Sub-Family Phrynid/e. 



III. 



Abdomen separated from thorax by a slight constriction. Tail either absent 



or unprovided with a sting. 



Nos. Phrynus ceylonicus {Koch).—\Z. Specimen (i) ; 14. Figure (natural size). 

 '3' ^4- From Ceylon. 



We have placed this and some of the following species here, 

 not as being either hurtful or beneficial to man, but as showing 

 the passage between the Scorpions and the Spiders ; and as 

 Phrynus ceylonicus is too large for our page, we give a figure of a 

 smaller species, Phrynus palmatus. 



Phrynus palmatus (natural size). 



Nos. Telyphonus giganteus {Kocli).—\h. Specimen ; 16. Figure of natural 

 ' ' size. From the East Indian region. 



The tail in this genus is in the form of a jointed bristle, but 

 unarmed. 



