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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et eiroiun vitreos considite fontes: 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hie earpite flores : 

 Floribua et pietum, divse, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphae Craterides, ite aub undas; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia truiioo 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deje pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N.Parthenii Giannettaiii Eel. 1. 



No. 97. JANUARY 1876. 



I. — On the ( yJassijication of Scorpioyis. 

 By Prof. T. Thorell. 



After Peters, by his important work, " Ueber eine neue 

 Eintheilung dor Skorpione " &c.*, had carried out a thorough 

 reform in the classification of Scorpions, it might have been 

 expected that this interesting and neglected group of animals 

 would become the subject of numerous and exhaustive re- 

 searches, and that not only some among the many unknown 

 species that lie preserved in public and private collections 

 would be described, but also that their classification would 

 be more fully developed on the principles laid down by 

 Peters. Very little of this, however, has yet taken place ; and 

 under these circumstances the contribution to the knowledge 

 of these animals which constitutes the substance of the follow- 

 ing attempt at a systematical arrangement of the order of 

 Scorpions, although based on the examination of a rather 

 limited number (about 90) of species, may perhaps be con- 

 sidered not altogether superfluous, since it points out some 



* Monatsbericht d. koni"'!. Akad. d. Wisseusch. zii Berlin, 1861, pp. 507- 

 516. 



Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser.4. lo/. xvii. 1 



