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CONTRIBUTIONS TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARACH- 

 NID AN FAUNA OF AUSTRALIA. No. L 



By W. J. Rainbow. 

 (Entomologist to the Australian Museum). 



(Plate XLix., figs. 4, 4a, 46.) 



In this series of papers it is my intention from time to time to 

 work out such material as could not well be considered or studied 

 under the same headings as those papers already published by me. 

 In the first instance, the title restricted me solely to the Araneidce, 

 and in the second place confined my attentions, so far as descrip- 

 tions were concerned, to New South Wales. The title of the new 

 series will, therefore, give me a much wider field, both from a 

 zoological and geographical point of view, and enable me to record 

 species and discuss questions appertaining to other groups, such 

 as scorpions, pseudo- scorpions, &c., but also of Araneidce from 

 other Australian colonies than New South Wales. The present 

 paper contains a description of a new species of Buthus; this was 

 one of a collection of Arachnid a obtained by Mr. Ogilby during a 

 visit to Cooma about twelve months ago, and which that gentleman 

 handed over to me shortly after his return to Sydney. 



Order SCORPIONID JE. 



Family ANDROCTONID^. 



Sub-family ANDROCTONINI. 



Genus Buthus, Leach. 



Buthus flavicruris, sp. nov. 



(Plate XLIX., figs. 4, 4rt, \b.) 



Colour : yellowish-brown above and laterally, pale yellowish 

 underneath ; palpi yellow-brown ; tail yellow-brown above, 

 laterally, and beneath; aculeus glossy, yellow-brown at base, 



