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or partly reticulated; digits pale; legs spotted; trunk with a 

 median keel; the first three sternites finely granular at the 

 sides, in the female a triangular roughened median spot with 

 low transversal ridges on the first and second sternites; 4-th 

 and 5-th sternal plates coarsely granular mostly throughout; 

 the 5-th with four granular keels; tail in the male very 

 elongated and slender, in both sexes with very strong and 

 granular keels; the upper keels of the 2-nd and 3-td caudal 

 joints with a very enlarged terminal tooth; all the intercari- 

 nal spaces coarsely granular; vesicle almost cylindrical, narrow, 

 Avith a tooth beneath the aculeus; brachium of the palpi with 

 granular upper keels; hand narrow; pectinal teeth 15 — 18 (?), 

 or 17 — 20 (d)\ total length about 25 — 31 mm. 



Distribution. The typical specimen of this species 

 has been recorded from Kilimatinde in German East Africa; in 

 British East Africa the same species was found at first near 

 the Mount Kenia (Kraepelin 1913, p. 175), afterwards also 

 in the basin of Tzavo river (at Magji and Madzura — Rirula 

 1914, p. 120, and at Vol and Bura — Birula 1915, p. 56); 

 northwards Lyclias obsti extends into South vSomaliland (Ra- 

 hanvin — Kraepelin 1. cit.). A single specimen (? ad.) taken 

 by the Expedition at Voi— Bura 24-25 YIII. 



Fam. Scorpionidae. 



13. Jomachus politus Poc. 



1896. Jo/nachus politics, Pocock, R., Ann. and Mag. nat. 

 Hist., ser. 6, v. XVII, p. 317 (loc. typ. „Mombasa"). 



S y n n y m a: Jomachus politus, Kraepelin, K., Mitt, 

 naturh. Mus. Hamburg, v. XIII, p. 138, 1896; Pocock. R., 

 Proc. Zool. Soc London, p. 499, 1898; Kraepelin, K., Mitt, 

 naturh. Mus. Hamburg, v. XXX, p. 187, 1913; Birula, A., 

 Ann. Mus. Zool. Petrograd, v. XIX, p. 114, 1914; id., Revue 

 russe d'Entom., v. XV, p. 52, 1915. 



Colour of body broAvn, or brownish yellow, above blackish 

 brown or greenish black; tail entirely dark; vesicle reddish; 

 legs pale at the base; lower surface of the trunk fulvous, 

 partly infuscate; carapace and tergites entirely smooth and po- 

 lished; sternites of abdomen also very smooth; tail slender 

 and very short; its 1— 4-th joints smooth and polished, not 



