72 Mr. R. T. Pocock on 



namely Fitzinger's '"'■ Crypiophrojctus hrevirostris ^"^ * (later 

 DasypJirach(s brevirostris^), said in one place to come from 

 Chili and in another from Bolivia, and which, although the 

 describer himself considered it the same as D. vellerosus^ 

 might have been really the present form. The type of the 

 species was at one time in the Vienna Museum ; but my 

 friend Dr. von Lorenz kindly informs me that it is no longer 

 there, and we are therefore reduced to Fitzinger's description. 

 Apart from his own recognition of its identity with D. velle- 

 rosus (over which he unjustifiably claims priority), this 

 description, and especially the dimensions given, prove con- 

 clusively that it really was the smaller southern form, of 

 which the British jMuseum, besides the type fi-om Santa Cruz 

 de la Sierra, Bolivia, possesses an immatm-e example from 

 Chili. We may therefore dismiss the name brevirostris as 

 altogether synonymous with vellerosus. 



X. — A small Contribution to our Knowledge of the Scorpions 

 of India. By R. I. POCOCK, of the British Museum 

 (Natural History). 



Family Scorpionidae. 



Scorpio bengalensis (C. Koch). 



Since giving a few brief notes about this scorpion in my 

 paper upon the Indian species of Scorpions (J. Bombay Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. vol. viii.), I have come across three other examples 

 of this species, which show that it attains to a greater size than 

 C. Koch's type. These specimens are of a very deep green 

 throughout. The following measurements will show the 

 dimensions and the sexual characters of two of the speci- 

 mens : — 



? . — Total length 127 millim., of carapace 10, of tail 63; 

 length of palp 71, of hand-back 15, of movable digit 19; 

 width of hand 15, of brachium 7*8. 



(J. — Total length 113 millim., of carapace 16*5, of tail 60, 

 of palp 79, of hand-back 16, of movable digit 19'5 ; width of 

 hand 12, of brachium 7. 



* Sl"{. Alv. Wion, xlii. p. 884. 18G1 (descr. mUla). 

 t Op. cit. Ixiv. Abth. i. p. '264, 1871 (de.«cr. orisr.). 



