PSEUDOSCORPIOyS OF THE GUINEA COAST 



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The body proportionally narrow, somewhat wider in the male 

 than in the female, in younger specimens very narrow. 



Colour : the anterior half of cephalothorax brown, the posterior 

 one paler ; the somites palish brown, the palps very dark reddish 

 brown, the legs and the interstitial parts pale. 



Cephalothorax longer than broad, in the greatest part nearly 

 parallelsided, anteriorly broadly rounded, the front margin some- 

 what straightened; the greatest part of the surface nearly smooth, 

 only provided with some irregular stripes, along the hinder margin 

 with a girdle indistinctly shagreened; glossy. But cephalothorax, 

 as well as the palps, are often somewhat worn out and have 

 thus become more uneven , ])ut this cannot easily be confounded 

 with either shagreening or granulation. Xo transverse grooves. 

 Cephalotliorax is provided with some dispersed, partly dentated 

 hairs. 



Abdomen : the tergites and sternites minutely shagreened , 

 glossy; the last tergite entire, as are also the 4-5 anterior ones, 

 the rest generally divided longitudinally; the last sternite entire, 

 the rest more or less distinctly divided. Along the hinder and 

 the lateral margins of the sclerites rows of pointed hairs, placed 

 on small, whitish spots; on the posterior somites some longer hairs. 



The palps are, in general, shorter than the body, glossy, 1)ut 

 often worn out and therefore more or less uneven. Coxa smooth 

 and glossy. The inner side and partly the upper and lower surface 

 of femur, the inner side of tibia and often the inner side of hand 

 more or less coarsely granulated, the outer side of the articles 

 of the palps nearly smooth, the rest shagreened; the fingers 

 nearly smooth. The palps are provided with rather long, in part 

 indistinctly dentated hairs; at the extremity of femur, at the base 

 of tibia and hand and on the fingers there are some very long hairs 

 intermixed (the same is the case, as already recorded by Balzan, 

 in Ch. pallidus = Ch. guineensis). — Trochanter stalked, a 

 little longer than wide , the inner side convex , behind with a 

 rounded protuberance, on the outer-upper surftice with a more 

 acute protuberance. Femur with a short, but distinct stalk, sliort 

 and robust, the inner side from the base slightly convex, in the 

 distal half somewhat concave, behind strongly and roundly widened 

 from the base and somewhat rounded at the extremity, the very 

 outer contour nearly straight or very slightly convex; femur in 



