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DES(;iUPTlONS OF .^IX NEW SPECIES OF 



SCOltnONS FPtOM INDIA. 



By 11. I. PococK, OF THE BuiTisii Museum of Natural History. 



{Head before the Bombay Natural History SoclHy on lAtfi JnnCy 181)8.) 



Tlic spocios ol'sooritioiis here doscribod liavo eitlior come to liand or 

 boon recognized as now since the |»ublicalion oi' my paper dealin<:; with 

 some new species oftliese animals in No. 1, A^ol. XI, of this Jonrnal. 

 The sjiocies of LsonwlrKs and Archisometnis were received thronfjh 

 Mr. R. (I Wron^hton from Ihe P)0mbay Natural History Soiiiety ; those 

 belon<2;in<2; io ('/i(xir/!iis anil K^corpiojts form part of tho collection in the 

 British Museum. 



Family BUTlIlDil^]. 



Sknochirns polllns, sj). n. 



Cob>ur. — A tloep shining blackish-brown on iho lailand the ujiperside 

 of the trunk ; lower surface of trunk, le^s, mandibles, and palpi not 

 ijuite so ihirk as the tail, and the three dislal sef^ments of the legs 

 quite pale ; digits also pale, brownish at the base. 



Carapace granular in the depressions laterally and ]>osteriorly ; 

 tergal plates granular laterally ami on each side of the median keel, 

 smooth elsewhere ; 5th tergal jdato idosely granular throughout in its 

 posterior half. Tail granular above in the median groove, the rest of it 

 smooth and polished above and below, without crests and without 

 granules, but distinctly though not coarsely punctured, tail very slightly 

 increasing in wiitth to the middle of tho Uh segment, which is a little 

 longer than broail (oX 2 j), the length of tho 2nd segment equal to 

 tho width of the 4th ; vesicle of tail punctured ; aculeus thick at 

 the base. 



i'((//'/ sliMuler and elongate ; humerus weakly crested and granular 

 in front ; brachium smooth, without crests or graiuiles ; two conspicuous 

 setal {lores on its \ipper side ; hand also smooth, narrower than 

 brachium ; digits long, the movable more than twice the length of the 

 hand-back, and armed with 10 rows of tooth. 



roctinal teeth 15. 



Measiirevients in inill inu't res.— Tohi\ length oli, length of cara[iace 3, 

 of tail 20 ; width of 1st segment 2','i, of Itli 2i;. 



Localil'j. — Kauara (7'. Li. J). InU . A single exanq'le. 



