66 VEJOVIDJE. 



i* Aculeus defined at base by a conspicuous 

 semicircular groove ; fingers longer, 

 length of movable more than twice as 

 great as width of area of upper hand 

 between finger-keel and inner edge. 

 '. With only 3 large setal pores on under- 

 hand in addition to the two set trans- 

 versely close to the base of the movable 

 finger. 



a 7 . Superior keels on caudal segments 

 3-4 weakly spiniform and not ele- 

 vated at their posterior ends ; tail 

 very short in tf , segments 1-5 only 

 twice as long as carapace, 1st seg- 

 ment not wider than humerus .... S. asthenunts, p. 73. 

 V. Superior keels on caudal segments 

 2-4 strongly spiniform and elevated 

 posteriorly ; caudal segments 1-5 

 in J much more than twice the 

 length of carapace; 1st caudal 

 segment wider than width of 

 humerus. 



". Brachial pores 9-10 or very rarely 

 11 ; fingers less strongly lobate 



in both sexes S. longimanus, p. 72. 



b*. Brachial pores 14-1 5; fingers more 



strongly lobate S. binghamii, p. 74. 



b*. With 9-10 large setal pores on under- 

 hand in adult in addition to the two 

 near the base of the finger. 

 9 . 1st caudal segment narrower than 

 humerus; 15 setal pores on bra- 



chium ; pectinal teeth 8 S. lindstroemi,-p. 74. 



b*. 1st caudal segment wider than hu- 

 merus ; 19 setal pores on brachium ; 

 pectinal teeth 10-11 S, anthradnus, p. 74. 



f>l. Scorpiops hardwickii, Get-vain in Walck. Ins. Apt. iii. p. 66, 1844 

 (Scorpio) ; Pocock, A. M.N.H. (6) xii, p. 325, 1893; Kraepdin, 

 Jb. Hamb. iviss. Anst. xi, p. 188, 1894 ; id. Tierr., Scorp. etc. p. 181, 

 1899 (Scorpiops) : solidus, Karsch, MT. Munch, ent. Ver. iii. p. 106, 

 1879 (Scorpiops). 



$ . Colour generally a tolerably uniform black, the underside and 

 tips of legs paler ; chelae sometimes deep reddish. Carapace finely 

 granular, a few coarser granules here and there, especially on the 

 frontal lobes ; as long as the 1 st, 2nd, and half the 3rd caudal 

 segments, considerably longer than the 5th. Ten/a coarsely granu- 

 lar, the granules often showing a tendency to fuse together into 

 series ; a median granular keel ; last tergum more coarsely granular 

 than the others, with median and two lateral crests. Sterna smooth, 

 with a few large punctures ; the last granular, with four subequal 

 granular keels. Tail about three and a half times as long as 

 carapace ; 1st segment nearly twice as wide as long, 3rd as wide as 



