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ai5. Tarsal joints furnished beneath with a median row 

 of spicules; body flat. ... Jomachus politus Poc. 



bi5. Tarsal joints furnished beneath with two lateral 



rows of spicules; body not flat 



Opisthacanthus fischerl Krpl. 



Synopsis and description of species with notes on their geographical 



distribution. 



Fam. Buthldae. 



1. Buthus (Hottentotta) emini Poc. 



1890. Buthus Eminii, Pocock, R., Ann. and Mag. nat. 

 Hist., ser. 6, v. VI, p. 98, pi. 1, fig. 2 (loc. typ.: « south shore 

 of Victoria Nianza*). 



Synonyma: Buthus emini, Pocock, R., 1. cit. ser. 6, v. 

 XVII, p. 425, 1896; id., 1. cit. ser. 7, v. II, p. 430, 1898; id., 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 499, 1898; Buthus minax (partim), 

 Kraepelin, K., Mitt, naturh. Mus. Hamburg, v. XXX, pp. 

 168—171, 1913; Buthus emini, Birula, A., Ann. Mus. Zool. 

 Petrograd, v. XIX, p. 121, 1914; id., Revue russe d'p]ntomol.^ 

 V. XV, p. 60, 1915. 



Colour of the body yellow or ochraceo-fuscous: keels of 

 the trunk above and of the tail beneath — black; trunk above 

 with five longitudinal rows of black or fuscous patches; crests 

 of cephalothorax well developed and marked with smooth and 

 rounded granules; superciliar crests of the ocular tubercle 

 smooth; tergites of the trunk with three strongly granular 

 longitudinal keels; sternites mostly smooth, sparsely punctu- 

 red and hairy; the last sternite more coarsely granulated at 

 the sides or shagreen ed, with four distinctly granular keels; 

 tail powerful, nearly parallel-sided, deeply excavated above; 

 the anterior four segments of tail furnished with ten well 

 developed, granular keels; intercarinal spaces finely and clo- 

 sely granular; vesicle large and inflated, strongly granular 

 and hairy below, with a small tubercle beneath the aculeus. 

 Palpi and legs granular and carinate; hand of the palpi large 

 and very finely and closely granular, much wider than the 

 brachium; digits short, each furnished with a lobe and 12 — 13 

 rows of granules; pectines with 23 — 25 (d') or 21 — 24 ($> 

 teeth; total length 45—50 mm. 



