Tó^ EDV. ELLINGSEX 



2 9'" young ones. S. Tliomé: Ribeira Palma 4 specimens, 



3 cf , 1 9. 



Note: I refer to this species 7 small young ones, differing 

 from tlie adults, among other things, in being very pale, greyish 

 white, upon the whole body, more feeble granulation, the shape 

 of tlie palps less developed, for instance, the hand being less 

 wide, not much wider than tibia, and the fingers not gaping so 

 much or, in the smallest specimens, even quite closing together. 



Tomosvary has described a species from the Guinea Coast: 

 Chelifer aiviiaius, with the fingers of the palps very gaping, 

 but this species differs in more respects from the new species. — 

 Thorell has described a species from Pinang, an island oft' the 

 Coast of Malacca: Chelifer hians, in most particulars, at least 

 according to the description, agreeing wnth the above new species, 

 particularly in the construction of the pincers of the palps, but 

 even the colour. There are, nevertheless, some characters by which 

 they may be distinguished from one another. Ch. h'lans is to have 

 two small eyes, belonging thus to another subgenus, but mistakes 

 have often been made as to the eyes of the Chelifer; the palps 

 are to be smooth, the shape of the tibia seems to be different, as 

 also the shape of the hand. I have, therefore, preferred to describe 

 the African animals as a new species. 



Eug. Simon mentions, in a recent publication, Ch. cocojMlus 

 as occurring in Spanish Guinea: this is certainly an allied species, 

 too, but w^hat is said above respecting Ch. hians, may also be 

 said of this species : there are differences. 



I have before me a specimen from Naranjito in Ecuador 

 (collected by Y. Ortoneda), wdiich I cannot distinguish from this 

 new West African species. 



Subgenus Chelifer s. s. 

 Oheliffer Sixuoni Balzan. 



1891. Chelifer Simoni Balzan, Voy. de M. E. Simon au Vene- 

 zuela. Chernetes. — Ann. Soc. ent. France. LX. p. 529. 



1895. Chelifer rnadagascarensis Ellingsen, Descr. d'une esp. 

 nouv. d. Chernètes. — Bull. Soc. Zool. France. XX. p. 137. 



