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XII. Neiv South African Scorpions in tlie Collection of the South 

 African Museum. By W. F. PURCELL, Ph.D., First Assistant. 



(Preliminary communication.) 



PARABUTHUS NEGLECTUS, n. sp. 



Colour yellow, the abdomen often darkened with green or brown. 

 Cauda very like that of capensis, Hemp, and Ehrbg. ( iros, Koch 

 -planicauda, Poc.), but the upper hind edge of segment 2 is strongly 

 elevated and curved forwards in the middle, forming a characteristic 

 tongue-like elevation, which is also developed, although less strongly, 

 in the third segment. Segments 1-4 10-carinate, of equal width, or 

 segments 1 and 4 slightly narrower than segments 2 and 3 ; upper 

 surface of segment 1 as broad and flat as in capensis, not grooved 

 mesially but very broadly shagreened ; intercarinal spaces of cauda 

 for the most part coarsely and thickly granular. Palps of 5 and 

 young with the brachium and man us unusually wide, the latter nearly 

 as wide as in the adult g . 



Measurements of ? . Length 91 ; length of carapace 9i ; length of 

 brachium 7, width (at base of anterior basal tooth) 3i ; length of 

 hand-back 4^ ; width of hand 3i ; length of tail 52, length and 

 width of I. segment 6f , 6f , of II. segment 7|, 6|, of V. segment 

 10, 5f. (Length is always taken laterally from hind edge to the 

 large anterior angular prominence of each tail segment.) 



$ . Length 93 ; length of brachium 6f, width 3 ; length of hand- 

 back 5 ; width of hand 3^. 



A number of $ and ? specimens (types, No. 1197) found between 

 Packhuis Berg and Oorlogs Kloof, Clanwilliam and Calvinia 

 Divs. (Max Schlechter). Also many other specimens from the 

 western Divisions of the Colony. This is a very distinct species. 



