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THE FALSE-SCORPIONS OF SCOTLAND. 



By ROBERT GODFREY, M.A. 

 ( Con fin ued from p. 26.) 



Chelifer eaneroides (Linn.), 1761. 



On the 2nd of April 1907, while sifting some hay-seed and 

 refuse from a stable loft in Emily Street, Glasgow, I obtained a 

 single specimen of Chelifer eaneroides. A week later, with the help 

 of the stableman, Mr. Alick Wilson, I examined the loft with great 

 care, and, after long search, we came on a colony of the species 

 living on a discarded piece of harness buried in the hayseed. Some 

 of the specimens were very immature, but most of them were adult, 

 and at least one seemed to be ready to lay her eggs. On the 2gth 

 of April, accompanied by Robert Whyte, I returned a third time to 

 the loft, and together we obtained other eighteen specimens. By 

 beating pieces of old harness sharply on the ground, we shook the 

 creatures out of their recesses ; and by cutting up the harness we 

 found other individuals concealed in the narrow interstices between 

 the strips of leather. We also succeeded in discovering the dis- 

 carded moulting nests, placed between strips of leather that had 

 been tightly sewn together. The nests were closed elliptical rings, 

 2 millimetres by 3 millimetres in cross diameter, of dust particles, 

 within which was the inner silken lining appressed throughout the 

 extent of both upper and under surfaces against the leather. Two 

 of the nests contained the remains of moults. 



I gave the stable a rest for two months, and returned on June 

 28 to hunt for the female with young. The previous ravages on 

 the loft had evidently told on the colony, but I obtained other 

 three from old harness, and the stableman unearthed a small 

 wooden board, which proved to be haunted by the species. In all 

 we took nine specimens. Of these, four were fully adult, and all 

 males. Of the other five, two were females, swollen, but showing 

 no external sign of the embryonic mass. Either the season for 

 the appearance of the egg-mass had not yet arrived, or, what is more 

 likely, the adult females were snugly hidden in cracks of the wood 

 or elsewhere. 



In a second stable loft, in Walls Street, Glasgow, on the same 

 afternoon, I found an adult male resting on the outside of a small 

 wooden box; later, on September 14, 1907, Aird Whyte and I 

 visited this stable, and devoted our attention to one of the horse- 

 stalls : we found adults and young that had but lately entered on a 

 free life living in company with Ch. panzeri. 



I put five of the specimens obtained on June 28 into a bottle 



