188!).] Oontinental India, Burma, anil the Malay Peninsula. 9 



lai'ge apophysis on the interior-front corner, long and cylincli'ical, ter- 

 minated with a large spine and furnished below with numerous teeth 

 like a coarse file (Fig. 13) ; fifth joint much, narrower than the fourth, 

 fixed finger short and tringular almost smooth on both edges, movable 

 finger long and curved, serrated below, in shape much as in Fig. 11 ; 

 one sharp spine on the lower projecting angle of the joint ; first joint 

 of cheliceres below densely punctured and slightly wrinkled in places ; 

 the anterior process with a lateral spine as well as a terminal one ; 

 cephalothorax densely granulated all over with a very prououuced sharp 

 ridge between the lateral and middle eyes. 



First lower abdominal segment wrinkled in the middle, not divided 

 by a groove ; posterior edge well rounded. 



Structure 9 . Cheliceres as densely granulated as in the male ; second 

 joint with five very distinct teeth in front and two spines below ; third 

 joint with a blunt spine on the interior edge and a long, sharp one be- 

 low; fourth joint with a minute spine below and a triangulai-, pointed 

 apophysis on the interior-front corner serrated on both edges (Fig. 8) ; 

 fifth joint very narrow and feeble, fixed finger short and sharply trian- 

 gular, serrated on both edges, movable finger longa nd sharply pointed, 

 curved (Pig. 6), serrated on the inner edge ; first joint of cheliceres 

 below as in the male. 



Cephalothorax as in the male. First abdominal segment below 

 differing in no respect from that of the male. 



Found throughout Assam and Sikkim, and the hill-ranges of 

 Eastern Bengal and Cachar. 



The lato Dr. Stoliczka appears to have been ignorant of the great 

 difference of structure between the sexes of these animals, and he de- 

 scribes the two sexes under different names. His name has priority over 

 Mr. Butler's by four years. This species is widely distributed and 

 appears to be common, and was consequently, we may smpect, known to 

 the earlier writers on these animals, but to identify it with any of their 

 names is now impossible. It will bo well, therefore, to adopt Dr. 

 Stoliczka's name instead of making fruitless attempts to find an earlier 

 one. 



2. Theltphonus indicus. pi. II, Figs. 1 — 6. 

 Thelyplwnus indicus, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. 1873, pt. u, p. 138, pi. xii, fig. 5. 



heddomei, „ J. A, S. B. 1873, pt. ii, p. 143, pi. xii, fig. 6. 



S . Cephalothorax and abdomen dull chestnut-brown ; cheliceres 

 bright chestnut ; legs and tail deep red below, cheliceres deep chestnut ; 

 abdomen, sternum, and legs bright chestnut. Length 1'3 inches. 



9 . Similar to the male in colour. 

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