XXIV. TWO NEW SCORPIONS FROM 

 SOUTHERN INDIA. 



By ]. R. Henderson, M.B., CM., CLE., Formerly 

 Superintendent, Madras Government Museum. 



Plate XXI. 



The scorpions which form the subject of this note were ex- 

 hibited at the meeting of the Indian Science Congress held at 

 ^Madras in January, 1915, but have not been described till now. 



Lychas albimanus, n. sp. 

 Plate XXI, figs. 1,2. 



Habitat. — Three specimens found under logs, at an elevation 

 of about 1,500 feet in the Teak Forests, Cochin State, by Dr. 

 F. H. Gravely and Mr. B. Sundara Raj, M.A., in September, 

 1914. The following description has been drawn up from only one 

 of these specimens, an apparenth' adult female. 



Colour black with brownish mottlings, the last three terga 

 with yellowish spots and mottlings. Tail paler especially towards 

 its distal end, the vesicle yellowish. Chela black with the excep- 

 tion of the band which is white (becoming yellow in spirit) ; the 

 fingers black. Legs pale brownish, with the femora and patellae 

 black. 



Carapace finely granular, the granules being most strongly 

 developed towards the anterior margin. 



Terga finely granular, with a single median keel on each, 

 which, however, is poorly developed on the last tergum and the 

 latter carries two well-developed lateral keels in addition. 



Sterna smooth, except the last which is faintly granular and 

 carries two indistinct keels on either side of the middle line. 



Tail about five times as long as the carapace, faintly granular ; 

 keels well-developed, granular ; vesicle faintl}' granular below ; 

 spine beneath the aculeus triangular, pohited, and placed at the end 

 of a median granulated ridge which traverses the undersurface of 

 the vesicle. 



Chelae practically smooth, but with granular crests on the 

 humerus and brachium ; hand smooth, about the same width as the 

 brachium ; digits in contact, not sinuate, the movable one slightly 

 longer than the carapace ; outer series of teeth on the movable 

 finger 6, inner series 5. 



