96 



keted Ceylon and named, though certainly wrongly, ceylonicus Herbst. 

 But this locality needs confirmation before being accepted as true. 



Palamnœus. 



9. (?) Palamnœus spinifer (Hempr. and Ehr.). 



I doubtfully refer to this species, the synonymy of which may be 

 found in my paper in the Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan. 1892 pp. 38 — 40, 

 a single example of this genus that was obtained by Dr. Max "Weber 

 at Kaju-tanam in Sumatra. 



This example is doubtless immature as is shown by the following 

 measurements in millimetres. 



Total length 43; length of céphalothorax 6.3, width 6; length of 

 tail 21; of humerus 5, of brachium 5.5, of hand-back 5, of movable 

 digit 6.5 ; width of hand 3. 



At first owing to the smoothness of its vesicle , I was inclined to 

 think this example might be the young of P. liophysa of Thorell. 



This surmise was further supported by the locality from which the 

 specimen was obtained, the type of liophysa having been procured 

 from Ajer Mantjur in Sumatra. But one of the best marked characters 

 of P. liophysa, namely the strongly reticulated pattern of the upper 

 surface of the hand , is not observable in Dr. Max Weber's specimen, 

 in which this organ is smooth as in P. spinifer. 



Hormurus. 



10. Hormurus australasiae (Fabr.), Thor. 



loc. cit. p. 95. 



Many specimens from Buitenzorg in Java; Manindjau, Kaju-tanam, 

 Singkarah in Sumatra ; the Island of Saleyer off Celebes ; Maumerie in 

 Flores. 



This species is found in S. East Asia and all over the Islands of 

 the Indo-Malayan , Austro-Malayan and Australian Region. The British 

 Museum has examples ranging from the Himalayas and Corea in the 

 North to the Fiji Islands in the South. 



I can hardly bring myself to think that the variety complanatus of 

 C. Koch is deserving of recognition as such. The two kinds seem to be 

 inextricably mixed in their distribution and to present every grade 



