ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 7. N:o 24. 



Scorpioiis, Solpugids and Ixodides 



collected by the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Brit. 

 East Africa 1911. 



Scorpioiis and Solpiigids 



by 

 EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



Read Xovember 8th 1911. 



During tlie expedition to British East Africa 1911 I had 

 the opportunity of collecting a few members of the above 

 mentioned groups. Having returned home, these specimens 

 together with the entomological collections in general were 

 presented to the Entomological department of the R. Nat. 

 Hist. Museum, Stockholm. The Scorpions and Solpugids 

 were sent by Prof. Y. Sjöstedt to Dr. K. Kr.^pelin, Ham- 

 burg who kindly named the specimens. As the collection 

 did not con.tain more than 6 species none of which was found 

 to be new the interest connected with them is chiefly zoo- 

 geographical. In spite of its small ness the collection is, 

 however, not without importance, because it has been made 

 at localities where no such material has been collected be- 

 fore, and it proves that also from a scorpiological point of 

 view the fauna of the Guaso Nyiri district, and of the country 

 north of this river offers a great resemblance with the So- 

 malifauna. Out of five species of Scorpions two have up to 

 this time been known from Somaliland, while the remaining 

 three have a rather wide distribution in East Africa. 



It is also of a certain interest to note that of the four 

 species of Scorpions which Prof. Y. Sjöstedt collected during 



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