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 
