82 Dr. E. Lonnberg on the Linnean 



they are often all well-marked and emerge simultaneously in 

 countries where practically no wet-season exists ; but, on the 

 other hand, in countries where the weather is more or less 

 moist throughout the year the dry forms are either wholly 

 absent or are extremely rare (probably only existing as 

 reversional sports). 



2\ amplexa group. 



In this group the outer borders are quite regular — that is 

 to say, not widening towards the apex of the primaries, as in 

 the extreme dry phases of the T. hecabe group. 



67. Terias amplexa. 



Terias amplexa, Butler, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 523 (with cut). 



Christmas Island. 



Our males are all of the wet-season type, and our single 

 female of the dry-season, in tlie pattern of the under surface. 



X. — A Revision of the Linnean Type Specimens of Scorpions 

 and Pedipaljjs in the Zoological Museum of the Royal 

 University at Upsala. By Dr. EiNAE Lonnberg. 



Feom the time of Linnseus three Scorpions and two Pedipalps 

 have been preserved in the Zoological Museum at Upsala. They 

 were all five mounted on pins by Thunberg, and are provided 

 with his handwritten labels, which not only give the specific 

 name, but also define the " collection " to which they belonged. 

 It is consequently easy to find the names in the catalogues 

 written by Thunberg. The first scorpion among these is 

 labelled " a/er, Mus. Ad. Fr./' which means that it belonged 

 to the collection which the then Crown Prince Adolph Fredrik 

 presented to the University in 1745. This collection was 

 afterwards described by Linnseus in the ' Dissertatio Aca- 

 demical which was defended by L. Balk, 81st May, 1746, 

 in a work entitled ' Museum Adolpho-Fridericianum ' *, 

 and reprinted in ' Amcenitates Academicse,' t. i. no. xi. 

 pp. 277-326, under the title ' Museum Principis.' Here 

 we also find the scorpion as No. 61 " Scorpio pectinum 

 denticulis XIII." The specimen in question is thus a type, 

 or one of the types, of the " Scorpdo afer^'' which in Syst. 

 Nat. ed. x. (1758) p. 624, and ed. xii. (1767) p. 1038, as well 



* This must not be confounded with the ' Museum Adolphi Friderici 

 Regis,' printed in Stockholm, 1754. 



