ANNALS 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFKICAN MUSEUM. 



I. Descriptions of New South African Scorpions in tlie Collection 

 of the South African Museum. By W. F. PUKCELL, Ph.D., 

 First Assistant. 



(Plates I.-IV.) 



THE species of the South African genus Opisthophthalmus have 

 recently been thoroughly revised, and nearly all of them re-described 

 y K. Kraepelin (' Eevision der Skorpione,' ii. Theil, Hamburg, 

 1894), and Pocock has subsequently given us a synopsis of the 

 species contained in the British Museum, with remarks on their 

 localities and descriptions of some new forms (Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) 

 v. 17, 1896). The collection of the South African Museum contains. 

 no less than twenty-two species of Opisthophthalmus, of which eleven 

 are new to science, and are described in the present paper, together 

 with one new species of Parabuthus. 



The figures in the plates are reproductions from photographs 

 kindly taken for me by my friend Mr. E. M. Lightfoot, of the South 

 African Museum. The measurements may easily be ascertained 

 from the centimetre scale photographed with each specimen. 



GEN. OPISTHOPHTHALMUS C. L. Koch. 



OPISTHOPHTHALMUS KAKEOOENSIS, n. sp. 



Plate I., fig. 1 ; Plate II., fig. 2. 



Female (recently killed, in alcohol).-'- 



Colour reddish brown to olive-brown; the hands, interocular area, 

 and vesicle pale-yellow or reddish yellow ; cauda and ventral surface 



* In the genus Opisthoplithalmus the sex of either young or adult specimens 

 may be easily ascertained from the structure of the genital operculum. In 



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