178 Mr. R. I. Pocock 07i 



XXIX. — Report upon the Scorpions, Spiders, Centipedes, and 

 Milli]>edes obtained by Mr. and Mrs. E. Lort Phillips in 

 the Goolis Mountains inland of Berbera, N. Somaliland. 

 By R. I. Pocock. 



[Plate XI.] 



Most of the examples composing this collection were ob- 

 tained at an altitude of two or three hundred feet. 



SCORPIONS (ScoiiPioNEs). 



Family Buthidse. 



Parabuthus granimanus, Pocock. 



Parahuthus granimanus, Pocock, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 311, 

 pi ix. figs. 4-4 d (1895). 



This species was originally based upon specimens obtained 

 by Mr. E. W. Oates at Zeyla in Somaliland ; but in the 

 same paper mention is made of some paler specimens from 

 the Somali coast. Mr. and Mrs. E. Lort Phillips brought 

 back a single young female example of this paler form. 



Buthus polystictus, sp. n. (PI. XI. lig. 1.) 



Belonging to the section of the genus of which the West- 

 African B. hottentotta is the type. 



Colour a clear lemon-yellow, spotted with black, the ante- 

 rior edge of the carapace, the ocular tubercle, and the anterior 

 and posterior median keels, as well as the lateral margin and 

 a stripe behind the lateral eyes, black ; each tergite except 

 the last ornamented with five transverse spots, the three 

 median of which are on the three keels ; tail pale above, but 

 the segments 1 to 4 adorned below with 12 round spots, 3 

 upon each of the four inferior keels ; corresponding spots, 

 but not so regularly arranged, upon the lower side of tiie 

 fifth, each pigment-spot surrounding a bristle-poi-e ; similar 

 spots upon the upperside of the brachium and humerus of the 

 chela ; external surface of the manus very feebly infuscate ; 

 femora of legs slightly infuscate, and patellse minutely spotted ; 

 whole of the lower surface of the truidi, legs, and chela3 pale. 



In graimlation and development of keels the species comes 

 near Buthus Eminii'^, which I described from a male speci- 

 men obtained upon the shores of Lake Tanganyika, and of 



« Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hiet. (6) vi. p. 98 (1890). 



