G8 EEPOET ON A COLLECTION FEOM 



interrupted by dark lines. Legs and palpi blackish banded with pale ; femora with 

 about four flavous patches, sometimes fusing together or connected with flavous stripes ; 

 patella distally flavous ; tibia with median and apical flavous stripe ; protarsus with broad 

 but indistinct distal flavous stripe ; femora reddish below at the base ; sternum and coxae 

 olive-yellow ; upperside of abdomen covered with greyish hairs intermixed with black 

 bristles ; black behind, with two bright yellow patches above the spinners ; lower side 

 orange-yellow. 



Palp with tibial spur as in fig. 2 e. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 16, carapace 8'5 ; 1st leg 64, 4th leg 73; 

 tibia of 1st leg 17, of 4th 17. 



Log. Mount Roraima (base, 3500 feet). 



This species may be readily recognized by the form of the tibial spur of the palp. 



Family AUGIOPIDJ^. 

 Genus Acrosoma, Perty. 



ACROSOMA SCHRIEBERSII, Pcrty. 



Acrosoma Schriebersii, Perty, Delect. Anim. Artie, p. 19i, tab. 38. fig. 9 (1830-34). 

 Loc. Base of Roraima, 3500 feet. 



Genus Araneus, Linn. 

 Araneus audax, Blackwall. 



Ejmra audax, Blackwall, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xi. p. 29 (1863). 

 Loc. Upper Mazaruni River. 



Order SCORPIONES. 



Eamily CHACTID^. 

 Genus Broteochactas, Poc. 



Brotvochactas and Hadrurocliaclas, Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (G) xii. pp. 77-78 (1893) ; id. Joui'u. 



Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv. p. 399 (1893) ; Kraepelin, MT. Mus. Hamb. xi. pp. 175, 178; id. Das 



Tierr., Scorp. etc. p. 172 (1899). 

 Four species referable to this genus have hitherto been discovered, namely :— 



1. Broteochactas Gollmeri, Karsch, Mitth. Miinch. cut. Ver. 1879, p. 133 (Chactas): nitidus, 



Pocock, Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv. p. 399, pi. xxix. figs. 7,7 a (1893) {Broteochactas) . 

 Loc. Trinidad and Venezuela. 



2. Broteochactas delicatus, Karsch, Mitth. Miinch. ent. Ver. 1879, p. 134, ? : opacus, Karsch, 



op. cit. p. 134, (j yChactas) ; panamensis, Thorell, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xxv. p. 27 (1894) 

 {Broteiis) . 

 Loc. British Guiana, Colombia, Panama. 



