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pnnctured on each side near the middle part, without any 

 traces of keels; tail narrowed posteriorly, above, in the sulcus, 

 smooth, on the sides granular; its keels high and granular 

 partly denticulate, except that the interior keels of first and 

 second joints are smooth and weak; vesicle large, granular 

 below; hand thick and large, moderately wide, ornamented 

 externally above and at the base of the digits with smooth, 

 punctured, rounded, irregular-shaped low tubercles, which fuse 

 into a reticulated pattern towards the inner edge; pectinal 

 teeth 17—19; total length circa 117 mm. 



Distribution. The type-specimen of this species, a 

 female, has been obtained at Kinani in British East Africa; 

 the other specimens were found in several localities of the 

 southern part of the same country: namely in basins of Athi 

 river, near Tzavo river (Pocock 1898, p. 498), at Simba (Bi- 

 rula 1914, p. 115). The same species occurs doubtless also in 

 East Abyssinia (Harar, Ginir— Kraepel i n 1908, p. 569, Bi- 

 rula 1914, p. 115). 



17. Pandinus pallidus (Krpl.). 



1894. Scorpio pallidus, Kraepelin, K., Mitt, naturh. 

 Mus. Hamburg, v. XI, p. 60 (loc. typ. „vermuthhch Barawa 

 in Somaliland"). 



Synonym a: Scorpio pallidus, Pocock, R., Ann. and 

 Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 6, v. XYII, p. 435, 1896; Pandinus palli- 

 dus Kraepelin, K., Das Tierreich, Scorpiones, p. 120, 1899; 

 Pocock, R., Proc, Zool. Soc. London, p. 58, 1900; Kraepelin, 

 K., Zool. Jahrb., Syst., v. XVHI, p. 571, 1904;? Pandinus pal- 

 lidus, Lonnberg, E., Ark. f. Zool., v. VII, A^s 24, p. 3, 1912, 



Colour of body yellowish, reddish, or dark brown; tergites 

 of trunk of the same colour; tail and hands reddish brown; 

 legs yellow, or brown; carapace of cephalothorax smooth 

 above, granular laterally; median eyes behind the middle of 

 the carapace; tergites almost smooth; abdominal sternites 

 smooth, the latter without any trace of keels; tail short with 

 strongly denticulated superior keels; sulcus of the 1 — 3-rd 

 caudal joints smooth, of the 4-fh — 5-th weakly granular; ve- 

 sicle granular below and on the sides; hand almost as wide, 

 as the length of the movable digit; its inner and hinder ed- 

 ges rounded, smooth, or with a few tubercles; upper surface 

 of the hand covered with mostly isolated, not punctured, poll- 



