62 DR. J. G. DE MAN ON THE PODOPHTHALMOUS 
P. vespertilio. The outer foot-jaws also resemble those of that 
species; they are covered with a short pubescence and fringed 
with yellow hairs along their inner margins. The sternum and 
the abdomen are covered with a short down, the abdomen, both 
in the male and in the female, being similar to that of P. vesper-— 
tilio. The abdomen of the female is fringed with long hairs on 
the lateral margins. 
The chelipedes are very unequal: in three specimens the right 
hand is the largest, in the fourth it is the left. The anterior 
margin of the basipodites is armed with three or four acute 
granules. The arms scarcely project beyond the lateral mar- 
gins of the cephalothorax ; the upper margin is armed with two 
somewhat arcuate, dark-pointed, acute spines at the distal end, 
the larger of which is situated a little behind the distal spine, 
which is itself accompanied by a somewhat smaller spine at its 
base. Behind these large spines the upper margin is further 
armed with four or five acute granules, which gradually decrease 
in size towards the proximal end. The anterior margin of the 
arm presents three or four acute teeth along its proximal half, 
and the under margin is also granulo-spinulous. The under sur- 
face of the basipodites and of the arms is a little granular; the 
concave inner and the scarcely convex outer surfaces are a little 
punctate but nearly smooth, the outer surface being only slightly 
granular near its margins. The wrist is armed, at its internal 
angle, with an acute spine, and the upper surface is grauulo- 
spinulous, being covered with many small acute tubercles or 
granules, especially along the inner margin and anteriorly (dis- 
tally). In its outer appearance the larger hand is similar to that 
of P. vespertilio. The larger hand is nearly twice as long as high 
(at the base of the fingers), the fingers being included, and quite 
as long as the length of the cephalothorax. The convex outer 
surface of the palm is more or less granulo-spinulous on the upper 
margin and on a proximal area; around the articulation of the 
wrist, the distal portion of the palm, and the rounded under margin 
are quite smooth and glabrous. As already remarked, the size 
of the granulo-spinulous area of the outer surface of the palm 
is a little variable, the smooth portion of the outer surface being 
in some specimens larger than in others. In one of the 
specimens from King Island, the whole under margin of the 
palm is smooth, and the granules are even wanting at the distal 
end of the upper margin, so that the granulo-spinulous area only 
