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exceeding greatest width of hand ; underhand about two-thirds 

 the length of the movable finger. Legs with granular femora ; 

 tarsi armed beneath with 6 posterior and 4 anterior spines, the 

 distal 2 of thesa situated on the terminal lobes ; tips of the lobes 

 furnished with bristles. Psctinal teeth 16-20 ( J , ). 



3. With larger pectines and a longer tail than in $ ; the 

 tail sometimes nearly five times as long as the carapace, and the 

 latter considerably shorter than the 1st and 2nd segments. 

 Chelae in 3 as in $ . 



Measurements in mm. (specimen from Trichiuopoly). 5 . Total 

 length 140, carapace 18, tail 78, width of hand 17, underhand 12, 

 movable finger 18. 



cf . Total length 138, carapace 17'2, tail 82, width of hand 17, 

 underhand 12-5, movable finger 18-5. 



Loc. India and the plains of Ceylon ; absent from the Konkan, the 

 Malabar coast, and the hills of Ceylon ; Dehra Dun (Gleadow) ; 

 Burdwan and Chota Nagpore (Dundas Wliiffiii) in Bengal ; Satria 

 (Gimlette) and Baipur (Martin) in the Central Provinces ; Shahabad 

 (Bocano) in the Dekhan ; Dowlaishweram on the Godsivari 

 ( Wybrow) ; Dharwar ( Woodroiv) Madras (Henderson $ Thurston) 

 Tanjore (Popert) ; Bamnad (Henderson, Fabre) ; Trincomali (Barrett 

 $ Bassett- Smith) and Chilan (Green), in Ceylon. 



This is the largest Scorpion of India, and, with the exception of its 

 near ally the West- African Pandinus imperator, the largest species 

 in the world, sometimes reaching a length of 180 mm. (7 inches). 



In addition to the typical form above described, with legs and 

 chelae a deep brown colour and almost as dark as the upper side 

 of the trunk, the following two subspecies may be recognized : 



Subspecies lucidipes, Simon, Bull. Soo. Zool, Fr. x, p. 38, 1885 (Scorpio), 



Differs from the typical form in having the legs clear yellow, 

 Loc. Bamnad (Fabre) ; Trichinopoly (Popert), 



Subspecies flavimanus, nov, 



Besembles lucidipes in having the legs clear yellow, but differs 

 from it and from the typical form in having the hands of the chelae 

 clear red or yellow, and contrasting strongly with the dark tint of 

 the body. 



Loc. Coonoor ; Coimbatore (Brady, type), 



71. Palamnaeus fnlvipes, C. Koch, Araohn, iv, p. 45, fig. 278, 1888, 

 (Buthus) ; Karsch, Abh. Ver. Bremen, ix, p. 68, 1887 ; Simon, 

 Bvtt. Soc. Zool. Fr. x, p. 23, 1885 (Pandinus) ; Pocock, Jour. Bom, 

 N. H. Soc. vii, p. 304, 1893; Kraep. Jb. Hamb. wiss. An*t. xi, 

 p, 44, 1894 (Scorpio); Kraep. Tierr., Scorp. etc, p, 112, 1899 

 (Heterometrus). 



$ . Colour much as in the preceding species ; body a deep blackish 

 or reddish brown ; hands redder ; legs, vesicle, and mandibles clear 

 yellow, or more rarely reddish brown. Carapace much flatter 

 than in P. swammerdami, not swollen in the middle, its sides less 



