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'' europceus" which he (Krgepelin) proves to be a Phassus, 

 and therefore calls " Phassus americanus (L., 1754)," because 

 Linn^us's " Scorpio europceus " in Sjst. Nat. is supposed to 

 be the same as that named " S.americanus^^ * in 1754 in 

 ' Mus. Ad. Frid. Reg.' If, now, Scorpio punctatus^ De Geer, 

 is the species of Phassus which Krgepelin had in view, it 

 should be called 



Phassus punctatus (De Geer), 



and the sjnonym " Scorpio europceus^ Lin. ]75S, 1764, 1767," 

 must be changed to De Geer's " Scorpio maculatus,^^ as 

 already stated. 



This Isometrus europceus (Lin.) [=Isor/i. maculaius (De 

 Geer)] thus also receives, I regret to say, a name that is 

 hardly suitable from a geographical point of view, but it 

 cannot be helped. It is, however, in this case satisfactory 

 that this nearly cosmopolitan species has been recently found 

 in Europe, namely, at Huelva, in Southern Spain (see 

 Krgepelin, /. c), and it is the only Isometrus that has been 

 discovered on the European continent. 



The third Linnean scorpion in the Upsala Museum has 

 been wrongly labelled ^' americanus^^ by Thunberg. It is, 

 however, easy to identify it and to give it the name that 

 rightly belongs to it, because there is only one of the 

 diagnoses in Syst. Nat. that can be applied to it. It is 

 evidently " Scorpio australis,'^ " pectinibus 32-dentatis, mani- 

 bus Isevibus." According to Krgepelin's classification it is 

 Androctonus funestuSj lierapr. & Ehrenb.f Already, in 

 1876 J, Thorell had shown the probability of such an identifica- 

 tion. It may be added, however, that since the specimen 

 has the hands and fingers brown and the tail a little darker 

 than the rest of the body, it resembles the form to which 

 C. L. Koch gave the udimt priamus (see Pocock, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, Zool. XXV. pp. 305-o07, 1895). By the existence of 



* Krtepelin's quotation is, Iiowever, rather confused, as it reads : — 

 " 1754. ticorpiu amei-ic(.mus, L., Mus. Ludov. Ulricae, p. 429." The year 

 1754 is that of ' Mus. Ad. Fiid. Heg.,' where this scorpion bears the name 

 " americanus." But in ' Mus. Ludov. Ulricas Reginse,' on the page 

 quoted, we hud the name " europceus " for the scorpion with eighteen comb- 

 teeth, and it was so written by Linnajus in 1758 (Syst. Nat. ed. x.). 



t For other synonyms see li^rajpeliu, /. c. (1891) p. 33. 



X Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. xvii. 1876, p. 7, footnote. He thinks 

 it might be so because he, in the State Museum in Stockholm, had seen " a 

 very old specimen " labelled ^'■Scorpio aus trails, Linn.," and that was 

 Androctonus funestuS) Hempr, & Ehrenb. 



