BTTTHL'S. 23 



thickly hairy, about five and a half times as long as the carapace ; 

 4th segment about twice as long as wide, 1st a little longer than 

 wide ; intercarpal spaces smooth except on the lower surface of 

 the 5th ; all keels finely granular ; inferior lateral on 5th con- 

 tinued up to anal border without interruption and without 

 enlargement of granules ; median lateral keel incomplete anteriorly 

 on 2nd, practically absent on 3rd. Vesicle about as wide as 5th 

 segment, as high as wide, granular below. Chelee long and slender : 

 upper surface of brachium bounded in front and behind by a 

 granular keel, a weakly granular keel also present upon the upper 

 portion of the posterior surface ; hand small, scarcely as wide as 

 brachium, not crested, smooth, punctured; length of underhand 

 much exceeding its width, less than one-third the length of the 

 movable digit, which is very long and slender, not lobate, and 

 furnished with 16-17 rows of teeth. Tarsi furnished beneath with 

 two rows of tine spines. Pectinal teeth 26. 



Measurements in mm. — Total length 58, carapace 6*5, tail 35, 

 back of hand 3, movable finger 1 1 . 



Loc. Northern Baluchistan (Maynard § MacMahon). 



9. Buthus taniulus, Fabr. JEnt. Syst. Suppl p. 294, 1798 (Scorpio) : 

 oigro-lineatus, JJnfoio; Mem. pres. Ac. France, xiv, p. 570, 1856 

 (Scorpio) : marteusii, Pocock, A. M. N. If. (6) iii. p. 335, 1889 ; 

 id. Jour. Bum. X. H. Sue. vii, p. 303, 1893 (nee marteusii, 

 Karsch, 1879) (Buthus): grammurus, Thorell, Ann. Mas. (ienova, 

 xxvii, p. 567, 18tt9 ; Kraep. Tierr., <S'< vrp. p. i'U, 1899 (Buthus). 



5 . Colour variable ; upper side of trunk blackish, reddish or 

 yellow, with ocular tubercle and keels on the carapace black, the 

 adjacent areas also sometimes tinted with black, also keels on terga 

 and adjacent tubercles black, the black of the lateral keels often 

 extending forwards and forming a large patch on each side of 

 the fore part of the terga ; tail yellow or reddish yellow, the 

 inferior keels and to a less extent the lateral keels black ; sterna 

 entirely pale except for the black keels of the last ; chelae and 

 legs entirely yellow, reddish yellow , or partially infuscate ; man- 

 dible with faint or deep reticulation of pigment and pigmented 

 granular crest above. Carapace scarcely as long as 5th caudal 

 segment, finely and closely granular throughout, with more or 

 fewer coarser granules on its sides and many on the anterior 

 portion both between and outside the anterior keels; the keels 

 granular; sides of tubercle just above eyes smooth; posterior 

 keels forming an irregular line with median keels. Terga with 

 three keels, the keels smooth or coarsely granular ; the laterals 

 curving outward at their distal ends, and dividing to form two 

 smooth or granular irregular transverse crests ; the rest of the 

 terga finely or coarsely, closely or rather sparsely granular ; 

 the anterior marginal ledge of the terga smooth or finely and 

 closely granular ; keels of the last tergum strong and granular. 

 Sterna smooth and polished, the last finely granular at the sides, 

 weakly or scarcely granular in the middle; with 4 nearly smooth 



