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ON THE SCORPIONS, SOLIFUGAE, AND A TRAPDOOR 



SPIDER, COLLECTED BY REV. HENRI A. JUNOD, 



AT SHILOUVANE, NEAR LEYDSDORP,* IN 



THE TRANSVAAL. 



By W. F. PURCELL, Ph.D., 



First A ssistant in tlie South African Museum, Capetcmm. 



AN interesting collection of Transvaal Anachnida was recently submitted to me 

 for examination by Mr. H. Jnnod. The collection contained specimens of 

 Scorpions, Pseudoseorpions, Opiliones, JSolifugae, and Araneae, and of these the 

 Scorpions, Solifugae, and Trapdoor Spiders are here enumerated, and the new species 

 described. 



Ordek SCORPIONES. 



The scorpions found belong to five different species, one of them not previously 

 recorded from the Transvaal. 



1. Uroplectes triangulifer Thor. 



2 ¥ ? and 1 juv. These specimens closely resemble the Joliannesburg form of 

 the species (described in Ann. S. Afr. Mng. v. 2. p. 187. 1901), but dilTer slightly in 

 the coloration, the tibia of the pedipaljis being infuscated in the distal two-fifths 

 only, while the femora of the legs are entirely yellow. Ex. in the South African 

 Museum. 



2. Uroplectes formosus Poc. 



1 ex. This species has not hitherto been recorded from the Transvaal. 



3. Opisthhopthalmus glabrifrons Peters. 



2 (? (J, 2 ? ? , and 2 juv. ? ? . These specimens, which are of a large size, have 

 the eyes placed far forward, and closely resemble those described by me in a previous 

 paper {Ann. S. Afr. Mas. v. 1. p. 161, under «)• Ex. in the South African Museum. 



4. Cheloctonus jonesi Poc. 



3 (? (?, 2 ? ? , and 4 juv. In the South African Museum. 



5. Opisthacanthus validus Thor. 

 1 ?. 



• Tlie .Station of Shilouvano, belonging to tlic Swiss Evangelical Mission, is at the foot of the Dmkens. 

 licrg Range, near Kranzkop, in the low country of St. Pietersburg, about 2000 feet high, on a little hill not 

 far from the Selati River. — H. A. Junod. 



