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77. Palamnaeus scaber. Thorell, Atti Soc. It. xix, p. 202, 1877 

 (Pandinus), for Heterometrua afer, Sim. (nee Linn.) Rev. Mag. 

 Zool. {'2) xxiii, p. 51, 187J : Pocock, Jour. Horn. N. II. Soc. vii, 

 pp. 310^11, 1893; Kraep. JO. Hand,, wis*. Anst. xi, p. 58, 1894 

 (Scorpio); Kraep. Tierr., Kemp. etc. p. 110, 1899 (Heterometrus). 



2 . Colour uniformly black or blackish green, with hands and 

 vesicle tinged with red. Carapace covered with coarse granules or 

 tubercles, smoother above as a rule; a little longer than 1st and 

 2nd caudal segments, shorter than 3rd and 4th. Terga also coarsely 

 granular or tubercular, with a larger central tubercle. Sterna 

 smooth, the last obaoletelv crested. Tail more than three and a half 

 times as long as carapace, superior and lateral intercarinal spaces 

 coarsely granular, superior and in a less degree supero-lateral keels 

 denticulate; inferior keels of 3rd segment scarcely denticulate; keels 

 of 5th strongly dentate; vesicle coarsely granular at the sides as well 

 as below. Chela with humerus dentate above and in front ; brachium 

 almost smooth, a few granules in front ; upper surface of hand very 

 smooth, finely reticulated, punctured, its inner edge denticulate, 

 nearly straight ; immovable finger scarcely keeled ; width of hand 

 exceeding length of underhand. Tarsal spines 4-5. Pectines small. 

 teeth 10-12. " 



S like female, but more closely granular and with chela? longer 

 (see measurements). Pectines quite small, not larger, and with 

 teeth not more numerous than in female. 



Measurements in mm. — $• Total length 130, carapace 19, tail 

 70, brachium 15, underhand 13, movable finger 20*5, width of 

 hand 10. 



<S . Total length 113, carapace 17, tail 63, brachium 15, under- 

 hand 12*5, movable finger 18, width of hand 13. 



hoc. S.YV. India: the Malabar coast from Trevandrum (Ferguson) 

 northwards to Velgit and Jedkal in Mangalore and the Mangaloiv 

 Ghats (Battle); also Dharwar (Woodrow), and Coorg above the 

 Ghats.* 



Subspecies kanarensis, now 



Of the same size, colour, and sculpturing of hand as the typical 

 form, but much smoother: the median area of the carapace smooth 

 or weakly granular; terga also furnished in the middle with only 

 a few granules or almosl smooth, sometimes only the three trans- 

 versely set tubercles present ; intercarinal spaces of tail also more 

 sparsely granular and the keel less strongly denticulate. 



Lot: Kanara (Bell). 



* In his original description of this species, which he erroneously identified 



with the Scnrja'o nfrr of Linn.. Simon >a_ys " appears in lie i-nmmoD m Bengal." 



This, however, is almost certainly an error, Bince the onlj species of the genus 



Palamnaus known i cur in Bengal are not md ngalensis, and 



possibly 1 1 io Burmese form oatesii. 



