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Distribution. This species has been obtained at first in the 

 southern parts of Somaliiand, Boran Country; afterwards 

 the same species was found in British East Africa at Ndi on 

 the Weiss Road inland from Mombasa. 



P. miUtaris and P. gregoryi are undoubtedly closely allied 

 to P. paUidus and perhaps may prove to be only subspecies 

 of the last. 



An account upon the zoogeographical vahie of the scorpiofauna of 



British East Africa. 



At the present time we have more or less intimate know- 

 ledge of the scorpiofauna only on the southern parts of Bri- 

 tish East Africa; almost nothing is known of the scorpions, 

 of the northern parts of the same country. In the limits of 

 this British colony were fonnd about 17 species of scorpions, 

 six species of which are referable to the fam. Scorpionidae and 

 the rest to the fam. Buthidae. The following table will show the 

 differential features of the scorpiofauna of British East Africa 

 and of the neighbouring countries: 



