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Kecords Chelifer peculiaris L. Koch [found by the Rev. F. 0. P. 

 Cambridge in an old building at Hyde, near Bloxworth] ; but 

 the species intended is Chelifer (Withius) subruher Sim. 



In 1890, L. Balzan reissued and completed his " Chernetidse 

 nonnullae Sud-Americanse " (of which three parts only had 

 appeared) in a valuable memoir with a long series of illustrations : 

 " Revisione dei Pseudoscorpioni del Bacino dei Fiumi Parana 

 e Paraguay " (Genova, Ann. Museo Civ. st. nat., xxix. pp. 401- 

 451) ; and in 1891-2 this work was followed by his " Voyage de 

 M. E. Simon au Venezuela : Chernetes " (Paris, Ann. Soc. 

 ent., Ix. pp. 497-552) in which the author proposed an elaborate 

 classification. The two main divisions, Panctenodactyh and 

 Hemictenodactyli, first appear here. 



27. Cambridge, 0. P.— On the British Species of False- 

 Scorpions. Proc. Dorset Natural History etc. Field Club, 

 xiii. pp. 199-231. [Also separately with the title : Monograph 

 on the British Species of Chernetidea, or False-Scorpions.] 

 Dorchester, 1892. 



This work, of 33 pages and 3 plates, contains the first attempt 

 since Leach's time to describe and illustrate our False-Scorpions. 

 It possesses the distinctive charm of the writings of its kindly 

 author — then and now Rector of Bloxworth and withal one of 

 the two or three really learned arachnologists of this time — and 

 it has been much used and much appreciated by our naturalists. 

 Moreover, it was a genuine contribution to knowledge, for the 

 author calls attention to the existence in the British Museum 

 of Leach's types, and gives the results of his examination of 

 them, together with descriptions of two new species. The work 

 is grounded on L. Koch (19) and Simon (22) ; and suffers some- 

 what from not taking into consideration the important studies 

 published during the years which had elapsed since the publica- 

 tion of those works. Further, it is well to remember that the 

 author's studies in these animals were along a by-path from 

 which he would, no doubt, be eager to return to the main course 

 of his spider-work ; and the same consideration applies to 

 Simon — to whom specimens were submitted — for though " un- 

 doubtedly at the head of all living arachnologists," he had, as 

 he told us a little later, " depuis longues annees neglige I'etude 

 4es Chernetes pour nous occuper exclusivement de celle des 



