— 18 — 



vesicle elongated and distinctly more slender than 5-th cau- 

 dal joint, weakly granular below; spine beneath the aculeus 

 without dorsal granules; keels of brachium almost smooth; 

 hand in the male wider than the brachium; digits of the hand 

 in the male with distinct lobes; pectinal teeth 20—21; total 

 length about 45 mm. 



Distribution. Only two specimens are hitherto known: 

 a male specimen was obtained at Wanga, another specimen^ 

 a female, recorded from Pokomonie. 



8. Babyciirus jacksoni (Poc). 



1890. Ehoptruriis Jacksoni V ocock, R., Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, p. 138, pi. XIII, fig. 1. (loc. typ. «at Taveita, Kiliman- 

 jaro >). 



S^uionyma: Babijciiriis Jacksoni, Kraepelin^ K., Das 

 Tierreich, Lief. 8, Scorpiones, p. 62, 1899; id., Mitt, naturh. 

 Mus. Hamburg, v. XXX, pp. 181—182, 1913. 



Colour of body ochraceous; carapace of the cephalothorax 

 and abdominal tergites abo\e fusco-ochraceous; lateral mar- 

 gins of the carapace and tergites dull black; digits of palpi 

 infuscate, yellow only at the tips; legs, palpi, tail and lower 

 surface of the trunk pale ochraceous; carapace of the cepha- 

 lothorax almost wholly covered with coarse granulation; ocu- 

 lar tubercle with granular superciliar crests; tergites granu- 

 lar throughout, with a median granular keel; the anterior 

 three sternites smooth, the fourth slightly granular only at 

 the sides, the fifth somewhat coarsely granular and bicarinate 

 in its posterior half; tail parallel-sided; all the caudal keels 

 are strong and evenly granular; the first joint of the tail 

 Mith ten keels, the second, third and fourth with eight keels; 

 all the intercarinal spaces thickly and coarsely granulated; 

 intercarinal spaces of the 3-rd — 5-th joints convex; vesicle 

 smooth above, coarsely and subserially granular below; palpi 

 hairy; brachium granular and carinate; hand smooth, roun- 

 ded, not carinate, nearly equalling the brachium in width; 

 digits not lobate; pectinal teeth 20 — 24; total length about 

 76 mm. 



Distribution. This species originally recorded from 

 Taveita. From British East Africa B. Jacksoni extends 

 along the sea-coast southwards into German East Africa 



