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shed low tubercles; lower surface of the hand without rows 

 of granules, entirely smooth; humerus smooth below; total 

 number of spines on tarsal joints 6—9 on the inner side 

 and 4—6 on the outer side; three spines being situated on 

 each lateral lobe of tarsal joints; pectinal teeth 17 — 21; total 

 length about 75 mm. 



Distribution. Pandiiius pallidas has been originally 

 recorded from Barawa in Somali maritima and was frequently 

 obtained in several localities of Somaliland (NE. Africa), but 

 during the Swedish expedition in 1911 to British East Africa 

 a numbe]' of specimens of Pandinus were caught at Njoro 

 in the Guaso Nyiro district „mostly on doume-palms under 

 the dry adherent leafstalks", which were named P. pallidus 

 by Kraepelin (Lonnberg, 1912, p. 3); according to 

 L n n b e r g the general colour of the upper parts of these 

 specimens was „a live dark green, or blackish green". 



18. Pandinus militaris Poc. 



1900. Pandinus militaris, Pocock, R., Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, p. 61 (ioc. typ. „Aimola in the Boran country"). 



S y n n y m a: Scorpio bellicosus, Pocock, R., in Donaldson 

 Smith's „Through Unknown African Countries", p. 397, 1897. 



Colour of body yellowish brown; legs paler yellow, hand 

 reddish brown with black digits; carapace entirely smooth 

 above, granular at the sides; median eyes near the middle 

 of carapace; tergites of trunk finely granular laterally; the 

 last abdominal sternite scarsely visibly crested; tail with su- 

 perior and supero-lateral keels of all the joints granular, or 

 weakly denticulated; its inferior keels on joints 1 — 3 quite 

 smooth, those of the 4-th at most slightly rugose; sulcus of 

 the 1 — 2-nd caudal joints weakly granular; humerus of palpi 

 smooth below; brachium almost entirely smooth; its anterior 

 side weakly granular above, more coarsely below; hand wide; 

 its inner edge smooth, upper surface smooth, finely punctu- 

 red and finely reticulated, with a few low tubercles just 

 above the keel of the underhand and at the base of the im- 

 movable digit; lower surface of the hand finely punctured, 

 granular distally, scarsely crested; total number of spines on 

 tarsal joints 5 behind and 3 in front; 2 spines only being 

 situated on each lobe; pectinal teeth 12 — 15; total length 

 circa 112 mm. 



