20 BUTHIDJE. 



Measurements in mm. — Total leng'h 51, carapace 5*5, tail 30, 

 back of hand 4, movable digit 5-5, width of hand 3. 



Loc. Northern Baluchistan (Maynard Sf MacMahon). 



Originally recorded from Seir on Lake Urmi in Persia (R. T. 

 Giinther). 



5. Buthus atrostriatus, Pocock, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. xi, p. 105, 



1897. 



5 . Colour yellow, variegated with black bands and spots ; 

 carapace with the anterior border, ocular tubercle, and keels black ; 

 keels of terga black, usually an additional black spot on each side ; 

 keels on lower side of tail irregularly fuscous, the dark pigment 

 spreading on to the sides of the 4th and 5th segments ; vesicle 

 lightly infuscate at the sides ; chelse yellow, the upper and posterior 

 sides of brachium and of hand irregularly lined with fuscous, patches 

 of the same colour beiug also present upon the upper side of the 

 trochanter and humerus and upon the femora and tibise of the 

 legs. Carapace granular, with the anterior keels complete and 

 granular, the area on each side between them and the lateral eyes 

 more coarsely granular ; median and posterior keels forming an 

 irregular series, distance between their posterior ends about equal 

 to that between ocular tubercle and posterior border of carapace. 

 Terga, granular throughout, crests granular and parallel. Sterna 

 smooth, the last granular at the sides and marked with four finely 

 granular crests. Tail of medium thickness, about five times the 

 length of the carapace ; 1st segment wider than long, 4th one-third 

 longer than wide ; the keels well developed and granular ; median 

 lateral crest almost absent on the 3rd segment, occupying the 

 posterior half of the area on the 2nd ; intercarpal spaces of the 

 sides and lower surface of tail finely granular ; inferior lateral 

 keels of the 5th segment furnished posteriorly with small lobate 

 or dentiform tubercles ; anal lobe quadrituberculate ; vesicle sub- 

 globular and granular. Chela', with normal granular keels and finely 

 granular intercarinal spaces ; hand smooth, punctured, hairy, 

 considerably wider than brachium ; movable digit about one-third 

 longer than underhand; both digits lobate, furnished with 11 

 rows of teeth. Legs granular and granularly crested ; tarsi fur- 

 nished with two rows of setiform spines. Pectlnal teeth 18-20. 



$ . Smaller than § ; digits more strongly lobate ; tail five and 

 a half times as long as the carapace. Pectinal teeth 22-26. 



Measurements in mm, — $ . Total length 48, carapace 5, tail 27. 

 Loc. Kashmor Bund in Upper Sind (Kcmball, Deivan Kaseram). 



6. Buthus acute-carinatus, Simon, Ami. Mas. Genova, xviii, p. 245, 

 pi. viii, fig. 18, 1883; Thorell, Hull. Soc. ent. Ual. xxv, p. :!(U, 

 L894; Pococ/:, Jour. Linn. Soc, Zoo/, xxv, p. 292, 1895; Kraep. 

 Tierr., Scorp. etc p. 18, 1899. 



Subspecies rugosulus, nov. 



Colour a uniform ochre-yellow throughout; keels of the body 

 sometimes darker. Carapace as long as the 5th or as the 1st and 



