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Colour of body brownish yellow, abdomen with three 

 longitudinal dark bands above, one in the middle and one 

 on each side; palpi, legs and tail pale yellow, faintly spotted 

 with blackish (the last below); carapace of the cephalothorax 

 entirely granular, not crested or posteriorly with the weakly 

 developed median crests; anterolateral angles of the carapace 

 with three lateral eyes on each side; tergites with a median 

 keel; tail gradually expanding to the 5-th joint, strongly 

 keeled, with intercarinal spaces entirely granular; first joint 

 of the tail with 10 keels, the 2 — 4 joints with 8 keels; 5-th 

 joint with weakly developed inferior median keel; a denticle 

 beneath the aculeus on the vesicle; movable finger of man- 

 dibles with two teeth on the inferior border; hand of the 

 palpi without crests, smooth, a little wider than the brachium; 

 its digits armed with 8 rows of granules; pectinal teeth 

 16 — 24 (?) or 24 — 25 {d); basal tooth in adult female wide; 

 total length circa 70 mm. 



Distribution. This species was originally described 

 from Mombasa; it occurs also in several other locaUties 

 near the sea-coast and also farther inland, at Kibwesi, Poko- 

 monie, Taita (Kraepelin, 1896, p. 121), Samburu, Machuma, 

 Mbuyuni, Voi(Pocock, 1898, p. 499), near the mount Punda- 

 Milia between Fort Hall and Nairobi (Birula, 1914, p. 118) 

 and in the basin of Tana-river (Kraepelin, Birula, 1. cit); 

 southwards 0. dentatus extends from British East Africa into 

 German Colony (Kraepelin I. cit., Usambara, Tanga, Massai, 

 Morogoro). 



6. Babycurus centrurimorphus Krsch. 



1886. Babycurus centrurimorphus, Karsch, F., Berliner 

 entom. Zeitsch., v. XXX, p. 78, pi. Ill, fig. 2 (loc. typ. «N\V.- 

 Madagaskar»). 



Synonym a: Babycurus jrictus, Pocock. R., Ann. and 

 Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 6, v. XVH, p. 426, pi. XVHI, fig. 1; id., 

 loc. cit., ser. 7, v^ 11, p. 430, 1898; Babycurus centrurimorphus, 

 Kraepelin, K., Das Tierreich, Scorpiones, p. 63, 1899; id. 

 Mitt, naturh. Mus. Hamburg, v. XXX, p. 182, 1913; Birula, A., 

 Ann. Mus. Zool. Petrograd, v. XIX, p. 119, 1914. 



Colour of body yellow; trunk above on the carapace and 

 tergites (except on the seventh) with three longitudinal black 

 bands, one in the middle and one on each side; tail pale 



