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SCORPIONES. 401 
by Dr. Donaldson Smith at the following localities in Somaliland: 
Turfa, and Lummo, 2,000 feet. 
The color of the four specimens procured is very constant, the 
sround tint being yellow; on the carapace, however, there is a 
black interocular triangular patch, extending also as a narrow strip 
towards the hinder margin, which is itself narrowly banded trans- 
versely; the anterior six terga bear a pair of black blotches, which 
conjointly form a continuous double black band, interrupted, how- 
ever, on each plate by an indistinctly defined, >< shaped yellow 
stripe; the seventh tergite has only a couple of small black spots 
in front; the fifth segment and vesicle of the tail are pale brown, 
and the lower surfaces of the first four segments are three-spotted, 
two spots being in front and one behind in the middle; on the 
chele the hands only are dark, being lined with black and the 
interstices between the stripes filled in with a net-work of fine 
pigment lines. Some newly born young from Turfa, measuring 
about 7 mm. each, resemble the adults in color, with the exception 
that the vesicle and last segment of the tail are entirely deep 
black. 
The example from Lummo isa male, but it does not differ 
strikingly from the female; the tail however is a little longer, being 
about six times instead of five times the length of the carapace, 
and the vesicle is slightly flattened below at the base. In the 
female also the basal pectinal tooth is expanded but not longer 
than the rest. 
Dr. Smith also procured an example of the ‘“ form” I described 
as fischert, var. nigrimanus (P. Z. 5. 1890, p. 130, Pl. XIV. fig. 2), but 
unfortunately the exact locality was not noted. This differs from 
those recorded above in having the mandibles infuscate, only the 
sides of the carapace yellow, the rest being deep green, the dark 
stripes on the terga much wider and the last one deep blackish 
green in front. A difference between this specimen, however, 
and the type is observable in the pigmentation of the tail, for whereas 
in the type there is a fine black band running throughout the 
length of the lower surface of the second, third, and fourth seg- 
ments, the median posterior spot is not even present on the second 
and third segments in Dr. Smith’s examples. 
It is difficult to decide, from Karsch’s description, whether he 
had before him examples of the xzgrimanus type or of the paler 
form described above. 
